Re: [Gnumed-devel] A case for partless documents

[James Busser]

That's really great. It will be a blessing to those practices who  
want to maintain some idea of what is in their paper chart without  
having to convert it all to electronic. Examples include a better  
ability to know whether to recall a chart that had been sent to  
offsite storage as where (date wise) to look within a chart.

I am sure no-one will question those phone calls when it was  
important to find that consultation or report that you are sure  
exists on paper in the chart but without knowing nearly to the day  
the date of that report the finding of the paper can be like the  
needle in the haystack.

On 25-Jan-08, at 4:12 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > I suggest that it be configurable whether the widget will allow the
> > saving of what is essentially a pointer to the original document.  
> > This
> > already enjoyed some discussion e.g. with respect to DICOM images. A
> > configuration setting would allow the dialog to instead say:
> >
> >         "No parts to save. Really save an <empty> Document as a reference?"
> >
> > Default button would be "No" but the user would be permitted to  
> > choose
> > "Yes". It would be easily decided by the reviewing physician if some
> > other user decision needed correction, they could always add the part
> > then."
> I think you have a point here. Will do. The backend readily
> supports it anyway.