Adrian Elliot-Smith wrote: > so for an md user do they end up in the results section rather than > documents where most practices would have previously stored scanned > documents? bit messy if this is the case (would have to look for > correspondence for a particular patient in two different places)
Documents are currently stored as independent files with an index kept in the database. Results are kept in the database as plain text (unencrypted thankfully). This means it would be more readily searcheable. For this reason my personal preference would be the results table for incoming documents. I would also prefer incoming documents without any form of markup (html, rtf, doc etc.) which makes searching more of a possibility. I note that SQL Server Express (the free one) is now available with full text indexing/searching so there is excellent potential to bring google style EHR searching to the GP's desktop. I hope the vendors are up to the challenge. Tony Eviston _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
