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- From: eclark@gauss.math.usf.edu. (Edwin Clark)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: graphical display of medical records
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.130943.1826@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 13:09:43 GMT
- Sender: news@ariel.ec.usf.edu (News Admin)
- Organization: Univ. of South Florida, Math Department
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- I have a son who has been in numerous psych wards and hospitals.
- Several times I have attempted to read the records--especially the
- medication records--over, say, a period of a year during which he has
- been on many different drugs simultaneously with numerous
- PRN's. I have been discouraged by how difficult it is to read
- these records and get a good picture of the data. Are there any
- places out there that keep all this in a computer and at the touch of
- a key can get graphical displays of the data?
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- I think this simple tool would be almost revolutionary.
- My feeling now is that many places -- all I have come into
- contact with-- have a very local view of the treatment and very
- seldom or never take a global view.
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- I have finally decided I will have to do it myself at least
- for my son's records. But does anyone know why it it is not
- universally done in this age of computer graphics? Are there
- any packages available out there?
-
- Edwin Clark
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- W. Edwin Clark
- Mathematics Department
- University of South Florida
- Tampa, FL 33620-5700
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