>From: Huw Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
>shred 70% - keep ALL discharges, referrals and what the Drs consider to
>be key letters - so we don't have to manually print out all letters
when
>patients leave practice
Hmmm.
Why do you print a referral file copy?
We only print the copy that is being sent away. The file copy of
referral letters remains as a disk file, referenced to the patient
by their ID number, and retrieved by a little viewer I wrote a few
years ago. Handles Text, Windows Write and Word versions 2 and 6
files.
When they go, there is a Cat function in there (any Unix heads
around?) which concatenates the letters and prints them, small.
I think I may just read them all into an area of the new clinical
system though, soon, when it becomes apparent what the best way to
handle them is. Even with Netware running on a fast 386 the overhead
of thousands of text files is beginning to be detectable, it takes
nearly .2 seconds to display the most recent letter on the current
aptient nowadays, and searching for free text and addressees is not
so fast as I would like.
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