I must say that I don't think forms per se consitute the problem. Forms
are very useful as they carry the context of the contents and give some
information about the relationships between the elements on the form.
It would be fine for each clinician to have their own forms if
1. they had a forms generator for creating new forms that was user
friendly, and they could be kept in a verison control repository for
management of updates and record keeping older versions.
2. The fields on the form are identified according to an agreed data
dicitonary.
Under these conditions the form would be the unit of transport between
sites not the indiviudally encoded fields of data, but the layout of the
form would also have to be transported along with the patient contents.
Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
On Sunday 17 December 2006 21:48, Tom Bowden wrote:
currently doing a project in which 20 separate electronic referral forms
dynamically published by a hospital are populated within the GP apps and
submitted in real-time as HL7 2.4 referrals.
how do you get to the stage of electronic referral forms?
every hospital department thinks it needs its own special paper based form
multiplied by the number of hospitals
we are a long way further back than you imagine some days
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