Re: Patient control

[John S. Gage]

Brian Bray wrote:

> Physician access:  I suggest that a file you can read with Micosoft Word
> or Netscape is way more accessible to physicians than an object or
> relational database.  A system that could produce such records gives
> physicians a lot more real control over their data.  Regardless of how
> the documents are stored, I suggest that the "document per patient"
> model is how most physicians really think and work.  It's certainly how
> the paper world works.

Guess who does it this way today?  Exactly this way.  VistA.

John Gage