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- From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: graphical display of medical records
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.234309.3005@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 23:43:09 -0600
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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- [reply to eclark@gauss.math.usf.edu.]
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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?
-
- This is often available on computerized medical records systems, but
- most clinics and hospitals still use paper records, in which case no one
- is likely to go to the trouble to type all the data in just to display
- it graphically. Eventually all medical records will be computerized.
- Keeping medical records electronically is probably cheaper, but the
- technology is still cutting edge and physicians as a group have been
- slow to adopt information technology.
-
- David Nye
- nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
-