On Mon, 5 Oct 2004, Tim Churches wrote:
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> 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.

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Best regards,

Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org

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