As Alan Cooper reminded us: think processes not documents.
In this case, I would like to ask: what are your current (and past)
processes that you designed to deal with fire, flood, hurricane,
theft etc. as far as the paper records are concerned?
To my mind, a fire, for example, will destroy my paper records,
my *only* records, for ever! The computer record is only one day
old and the dat tape is at home.
Can your paper-processes be applied/adapted to your electronic processes?
What is the hardship of writing repeat scripts, for example, by
hand off of the right hand side of the script (which most patients
will have).
Or: you may run off a report evry now and again of all your repeat
scripts and keep it as a reference tome.
How critical it really is that you see the last *electronic* entry?
I know, I know, it is important, BUT, how critical is it? Can
you manage without it? Can't the patient in question remind you?
So, to cut a long story short: backup and use UPS etc. but don't
get too paranoid about it, coz' what you have by doing that is a
damn sight better and safer than what you had before :-)
Ahmad
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Ahmad Risk MB BCh
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