Re: [Gnumed-devel] doc_med , txt blob

[James Busser]

On Sep 15, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Ian Haywood wrote:

> I think the answer is: yes that's possible, but not desirable.
>
> I'm not sure what the end-user use would be for searching, say, all  
> the
> JPEG images, would be.

I was only thinking the text or text-like objects. Within a patient  
the use case could be a diagnostic consideration that got mentioned  
in a report but which was not at the time given serious consideration  
and/or was missed and therefore not coded as meta-data.

The across-patient (practice review) use case could be to find  
special patients, again based on content that had not been coded.

I confess I lost sight of whether some incoming data --- reports that  
might have been sent through secure messaging rather than faxed ---  
will be going into some other storage area that better lent itself to  
searching... will it be going into a different storage area in the  
schema?