One can't place an image in a PIT file.  Maybe the Argus HL7 will allow
an image to be contained in the message one day soon.  How that will be
dealt with or inserted is a whole separate headache.

I think it more it is more important that we lobby for the standard to
be changed as it is a major technical impediment to electronic referrals
to require an individual signature.

Jim

David Guest wrote:

>Oliver wrote:
>
>  
>
>>That would make every referral ever faxed by any doctor not valid for 
>>Medicare benefits purposes!  
>>
>>I believe that facsimiles of documents are accepted as legally valid 
>>documents.
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>   1. Want to be a test case, Oliver?
>   2. Do you send the original later?
>
>David
>
>  
>

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