[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 08:23 on 10/11/98
about "Re: Record Storage":
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>>Will Windows really cope with this many directories - we have 10,000
>>patients.
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>It can, but having 10,000 directory in a file system is not awfully
>elegant.
Concur. However, if there are 5 of you, 5 directories below which
are about 2000 subdirectories each of which contains a hundred or so
files after 5 years is a low cost although inelegant way of doing
it.
The key of course is the automation, if the retrieval of letters and
other documents related to a pateint is merely a matter of
presenting htat patient's identifier to the system, then where the
documents are stored is of little significance.
I do think you have got it wrong in saving files in groups based on
when it happened, rather than keyed to the patient ID.
Some of the sessions at TEPR in San Antonio (regrettably another
engagement and lack of money prevented me attending) concerned the
integration of scanned images and electronic records...the CD is
probably the sort of resource that a PCG might well like its IT
department to have so as not to repeat all the previous mistakes and
false starts. (that is if the PCG has its IT department better
funded than Exeter, where the N&E DHA Fiance and IT department view
is that even expenditure on a copy of Scientific American, Oct 98, to
pass around the members to give them a simple view of firewalls and
hacking cannot be authorised.
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