On Sep 15, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Ian Haywood wrote:
I think the answer is: yes that's possible, but not desirable.
I'm not sure what the end-user use would be for searching, say, all
the
JPEG images, would be.
I was only thinking the text or text-like objects. Within a patient
the use case could be a diagnostic consideration that got mentioned
in a report but which was not at the time given serious consideration
and/or was missed and therefore not coded as meta-data.
The across-patient (practice review) use case could be to find
special patients, again based on content that had not been coded.
I confess I lost sight of whether some incoming data --- reports that
might have been sent through secure messaging rather than faxed ---
will be going into some other storage area that better lent itself to
searching... will it be going into a different storage area in the
schema?
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