On Mon, 5 Oct 2004, Tim Churches wrote: ... > Surely the whole point of computerised clinical information systems is > that the information is captured in a computable form,
Tim, Not exactly - some information must be "computable", other information just need to be captured for subsequent retrievable. > which a raster image of someone's scrawl definitely isn't? For example, a digitized radiograph is similarly not "computable". However, electronic storage and retrieval of such is useful. ... Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
