[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 22:29 on 10/11/98
about "Re: Record Storage":
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><<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
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>Adrian - can you expand on this? I am very interested in scanning old
notes.
>Ian
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Me to. I think we have to accept that the attempt to bring the NHS
into a modern era with electronic patient records in database and
EDIFACT and so on format so they can all be accessed seamlessly from
all over the place has failed, for this generation at any rate.
It was probably always an unreasonable expectation since the main
things required - rational approaches to problems based on teh needs
of the pateints and service, and technical wizardry were not both to
be found in sufficient quantity in enough of the NHS. Alas.
So what can we get? Well, we can get records which are accessible
rapidly, we can get records which can be stored in small spaces, and
we can get records which are associated with database/XML/textual
patient files, and are movable. And we can get it basically off the
shelf.
www.medrecinst.com/ is the TEPR main site.
TEPR next year is in May, 2-6 Orlando Florida.
There is a European one on 15-18 Nov 98 at the Cumberland Hotel
London, but I am not going to get to that either.
There is a CD with th eproceedings of the last meetingon, and a
couple of sessions look like solutions to some of the above, however
it is entirely possible that people on this list have it sorted out
already, and we may be a little ahead of the Americans in this,
perhaps. If so, no doubt we have lost a year of ground while the
efforts to torpedo the new IM&t Strategy were raging.
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