Michael Christie wrote: >Hello all, >Can I ask my colleagues with some advice re integrating electronic mail? >Locum has been mighty slow in implementing the ability to receive >emailed letters from specialists into the EHR.There is no facility >currently in Locum for this. >With all the wonderful things that Argus can do is, all I can do is just >champ at the bit. >Locum has however a Scan Documents section that we use to scan documents >into. This section would be perfect to use for email letters, but for >one small problem, it can only "see" jpg or html files.It can't read *. >pit,*. rtf or *.doc file here. > > Medical Director also has this problem.
It's hard to know what to recommend for display formats. RTF, ASCII, ODT, HTML, PDF? ODT is the right answer but it's too new. RTF is roundly criticised. Well formed HTML is possibly not a bad choice. >Argus produces pit files which can't be used in this part. I don't think >specialists would be able to send us emails in html format. >I was thinking, maybe I could use receive a letter from a specialist in >rtf format using Thunderbird with PGP encryption, unencrypt it at my >end, place the rtf file into a folder and some how convert the rtf files >to html format at my end. >Obviously I could sit at the front desk use Open Office or Word and >individually convert each file from rtf to html, copy this file to the >location where scan documents can see it, then match the file to the >patient. >However my receptionist is not highly computer literate. >Can any of my colleagues see a better way for me to use electronic mail? > If using thunderbird I recommend the enigmail and attachment extractor extensions. That will automate the decryption and put the attachment in your designated directory. Once there you should be able to batch process the files for conversion to HTML. If you like I could add that facility to pitifil for you. The real problem is getting specialists to send you anything in the first place. However I saw a brilliant solution to that problem yesterday. ;-) David -- "UFW. Deb does linux."
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