Re: [Gnumed-devel] export of patient record

[richard terry]

On Thursday 10 November 2011 08:30:50 Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> There's no need to feel toffee-nosed. GNUmed has exported
> patient records for years in two different formats. It's
> text only. It needs work. It could be prettier. It's
> searchable. It's re-identifiable.
> 
> Karsten
> 
Toffee-nosed: "Snobbish; supercilious; stuck-up"

Karsten, presumably that's aimed at me.

Was not being anything of the sort. You miss out on much constructive comment 
because of your sensitivity and it makes one less inclined to post 
observations and suggestions.

The experience here in Australia is that transfer of medical records is a huge 
problem due to lack of standardization.

At the end of the day one tends to be more interested in specialist reports 
and pathology and other results, rather then the GP's written notes which are 
by-and-large pretty bad  here.

There are dozens of different formats of medical record databases and I've 
noticed that when transfering records the surgeries often ask if we want it in 
pdf or medical director/best practice format.

I personally find the pdf format more useful hence my comments.

Regards

richard