Just having the patient's address and telephone available might save your office staff about 5-10 minutes of time on each patient.
--Richard
On 2003.06.16 07:56 Daniel L. Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 21:43, Richard Schilling wrote: > > This thread points out the variety of problems that naturally arise for > a given hardware solution - ... > > If memory serves me correctly (no pun intended), the hospital where I > worked at (1,200 employees) between 1996 and 2000 generated about > 20MB-30MB per outpatient per year. Inpatients have quite a bit more > data obviously.
As a clinician, I dread the day that any patient walks in with a complete hospital record, electronically or otherwise. I then have hundreds of pages or gigabytes of data - an immense haystack from which I must extract a few needles of relevant clinical information. If I fail to do so, I am still at risk legally for this; I have a nightmare of some lawyer who has pored over this mass at US$200/hr trying to extract liability bomblets which he then may lob at me in front of a jury.
No, let me as a clinician list the items I know that I need to receive, and I guarantee you that, images and all, I can make do with a CD-R, and with compressed text, a 1.44MB floppy.
Your sweaty friend,
Dan Johnson md
