On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Calle Hedberg wrote: ... > I don't think you will find many (over-worked?) doctors willing to wade > through 20 or 30 years of (other doctor's) handwriting imagery to find > facts pertinent to current problems or treatment regimen.
Calle, There will always be a mix of free text and structured data input. What we are talking about is capture of free text as image vs. character-code via keyboard entry. > In other words, unless you classify/interpret information along the way > it will not be retrivable in practice. This is true for free text stored either as image or as character-code. Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
