Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]> writes
>perhaps I could ad a couple of questions?
>What do *fully* paperless practices do with handwritten letters?
don't get many, but the essence is typed in by staff
>How can you ensure that an OCR scanned letter is not altered, either
>intentionally or inadvertently, or cut at the time of scanning..
>possibly removing information which may not be relevant at the time of
>scanning, but relevant later?
person scanning in checks and amends if necessary
>What do you do on visits? ie, if you are paperless, do you have to be
>portable?
would be nice :-)
but no, either take printout of last few months or a summary, or look at
notes before you go out.
I think it helpful to show patients that you have full notes back at
surgery and so this visit is to cope with immediate need only and they
should attend the surgery next time or later that day or week for a more
thorough assessment or whatever - discourages visit requests.
If you took a laptop with you then patients will never make the effort
to come to the surgery - why should they if the surgery can come to
them? ;-)
You'll be talking of taking a stethoscope on housecalls next ...
--
Katie
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