Jim Glaspole wrote: >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. > > There's no problem putting an image in a PIT file and zipping it up anyway you like. The problem is coping with it at the other end. Graphics are not part of the PIT protocol and will crash Medical Director and possibly other applications as well.
>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. > > I don't see why the Feds need to see clinical documents. As we have discussed before I would have thought direct notification to the HIC of referral would have been preferable. This was the system 15 years ago and an electronic version would be much more efficient than the paper one was. David -- For secure communication with the GMC see http://gmc.net.au gpg key Secure Mail (Current 10 February 2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x9CAE0C53 at keyserver.medicine.net.au _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
