Rob wrote:
> Could you explain what happens when the Pt moves and registers with
> another Dr. Presumably you then have to print out all the scanned
> letters, for inclusion in the Pt medical record.
>
Until now, we have been exporting the patient record to a floppy disk and
putting it in the Lloyd George envelope. The disk contains three files. The
first is a text file of instructions, the second is a text file of all
patient data ('The following Read codes are recorded...the following repeat
prescriptions...etc'), and the third is a CSV file of the same information.
Feedback from surgeries has been favourable - they can edit the file and
then print off what they want, rather than getting a huge sheet of paper
with loads of rubbish, and a few snippets of useful information lost in the
middle.
Ideally, it would be nice to move to a state where all systems export to
the same CSV format, and can also import from it. Think of the time this
would save (If you want to discuss this, Ewan, please get in touch!).
Regrettably, my HA has decided that this is not acceptable, and insists
that we include a printed copy. We therefore continue to do the same thing,
but print out the text-file version of the data. The surgeries I have
spoken to about this say that they just chuck it in the bin and edit down
the text-file on the floppy. So much for the opinion of my HA.
Prit
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