In message <[log in to unmask]>, Jonathan Kay
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>And with some computer technologies there is no guarantee that the report the
>clinician sees is identical in either content or layout to what you
>reported...
We have recently been having major problems with the latter when our
reports are transcribed onto the Hospital Information System. Our
carefully designed screens painstakingly drafted to maximize the
legibility and usefulness of the information are thrown away simply
because the format doesn't fit the Hospital System. A simple example is
the time order of results. The computer likes to put them in the order
they were requested, but with the availability of advance requesting
this can be thrown out by emergency results which were requested and
actioned at the same time and don't fit in the neat computer order.
There are numerous other glitches like throwing away comments like
"sample haemolysed etc.", which lab. computers treat reverently but are
consigned to the waste bin in some commercial implementations.
Although I have gone way off the original mailbase topic in my
exasperation with our computer system, perhaps I could start another
hare running by asking if anyone is really happy with a laboratory
computer/hospital system interface.
Trevor
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Dr. T.A. Gray
Dept. of Clinical Chemistry,
Northern General Hospital,
Sheffield S5 7AU
0114 271 4309
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