Andrew McIntyre wrote:
Medical-Object converts your rtf letter to a native HL7 format (Free
Text) which only has bold as formatting. It also transmits the rtf but
we made the assumption that letterheads etc were just screen clutter and
your would only want to see the clinical information and not the
formatting. It would be possible to give you rtf if you really want it!
Any specialist using Medical-Objects can see either version, the native
HL7 one or the rtf one, so they will see the rtf document unchanged.
However I think moving away from non standard formats is the best long
term option.
It also includes the digital signature which means that you do not have
to send the paper as well. With Argus you are required to send the
referral as paper as well as it is not a legal referral.
I have had to step out for a while and so am now just picking up the
threads.
I agree that letterhead is just noise but formating is helpful for the
mental processing of a document. ODF is now a widely accepted formating
standard. Is it likely that HL7 will adopt that?
I also think, as Tim and I have discussed here before, that documents
should be transmitted in two forms (a bit like an HTML email) one with
semantic markup for machine consumption (think automatic population of
problem list, medications, radpath) and one with display markup for
human consumption.
David
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