> Hi,
> Some Doctors are programmers, some are not, but each of them would like to
> adapt his patient record to the way he works.
Or rather: "have it adapted to the way she works".
> In France, it's a pity to see all the little usefull tools that are running
> outside of patient record, and can't be used in everyday practice because,
> if you want to use it, you need to re-enter lots of data that are already in
> patient record.
Fortunately, here in Germany the situation is a little better. We have
a solid, open, text stream, widespread standard for exchanging patient
data between systems. Usually there is a separate option in the main
menu to export large sets of many patients selected from a certain range
of time or even selected according to other criteria. Also, usually,
there is an option right in the individual EMR menu to export _this_
patient. Unfortunately, however, most systems that I know of, only
_ex_port individual patient data (why ??). They don't allow import
(except via the clumsy way of abusing the general export/import
option for whole sets of patients with just one patient record in
a file. That option is intended to be used when switching from one
system to another.) of individual records. That would be an almost
ideal way of connecting a (well maintained) legacy system that can
do all the horrible local billing stuff with a nice open EMR
system. In fact, I am going to propose this to one of the vendors
who offered to port his DOS based system (C or C++, don't know) to
Linux compilability.
I admire the French system for their use of a Health Professional
Card. What potential do those cards have ? What are they used for ?
We only have the patient card that isn't even a smartcard.
Regards,
Karsten Hilbert
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