More up to date, I can make drawings, using a stylu, on my Palm Pilot,
Please explain: you use a laptop _and_ a Palm Pilot. ???? ;-)
Dr G Mark Trowell
Highbridge Medical Centre
Pepperall Road
Highbridge
Somerset
TA9 3YA
Highbridge - "A cemetery with lights"
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-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
Sent: 23 April 1998 20:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Pretty pictures in notes [was:RE: A4 paper]
[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>From: "Jeff Green" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: A4 paper
>Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:21:50 +0100
>Adrian,
> I'm not entirely sure about abandoning written notes. There are all
>those
>pretty pictures/diagrams that some doctors use to describe things in the
>notes. That would be lost by changing to computerised notes only.
The pictures suffer all the disadvantages of other paper notes, IE they
are in only one place, often the wrong one, and have to be handled.
It seems a pity to maintain two systems in case a set of notes have a
picture in.
Fortunately, the ideas of pictures in the notes, and of paper notes are
not closely related.
GP Plus, the first Windows GP software, offered the chance of adding
little drawings to the notes. I never used that program myself, and
now Reuters have stopped supporting it fewer and fewer others will.
More up to date, I can make drawings, using a stylu, on my Palm Pilot,
and these can be moved to a PC automatically, and cuold perfectly well
be used in a database of the sort used by Meditel or Torex, or Prit
Buttar in their software.
ll the modern database systems seem to be fairly happy to handle
pictures, and the programs have to work hard not to be able to display
them.
I can envisage a keyboard equipped with a Palm Pilot like digitizer
instead of the numeric keypad being used, indeed the Palmtop could dock
into that location...
A friend of mine, a dentist, uses a small graphical tablet instead of a
mouse, and this is handy for entry of pictures into the Trident
software he uses.
COnsidering the actual pictures, they come in three sorts:-
icons eg our usual abdo drawing indicating lumps and pain and so on, or
a pair of breasts with a lump in one.
THese could be dealt with as much simpler grids than the sort of thing
Paint does, and stored in vry small amounts of memory.
Pictures - like X rays and photographs. THese can be grabbed from
cameras or scanners and handled well enough. They are rare in our
notes anyway.
Diagrams of complicated things - these would need a drawing tablet or
digitizer to draw, mouse graphics just won't do.
But once the picture is in the EMR it gets the same advantages as the
text does.
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