Another issue to consider is the 64K size limit for HL7 fields. Many of us are already violating this rule.



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.

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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