We do a similar thing with our faxes using "Ozefax" on an XP network. Working well. T
Dr FM Janse van Rensburg BSc MBChB FRACGP FACRRM General Practitioner http://members.ozemail.com.au/~tvren/ Skype: thinus-v-r -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Frank Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2006 7:10 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] scanning over a network Wal Tracey wrote: > > What does the PC side use for electronic fax send/receive? We use the fax software that is bundled in Microsoft Small Business Server (we have the 2003 version). Anything that I write, either in our clinical software (which is Medical Director) or outside it, is easily 'printed' to the fax system, which enables me to fax referrals and everything else without ever putting it on paper at my end. The fax software each time sends me an email either confirming successful transmission (and I keep these confirmations very carefully for legal reasons), or notifying me if the faxed document didn't go through, in which case I can sort out the problem. Incoming faxes are not printed but are emailed automatically by the Small Business Server fax system to our receptionists, who view them and forward the email message, which has the image of the incoming faxed document attached, to the relevant GP(s) in the practice. The GP views the image and then either deletes it, if it is spam or otherwise not needing any action (which is a hell of a lot of them), prints it in order to write on it or to refer to it, or may store it in an appropriate email folder depending on its topic. If the incoming document is about a patient, the receptionist has already imported it into the patient's record before forwarding the message with the image to the relevant GP. While this is better than generating outgoing faxes on paper and printing incoming faxes on paper, it is still not an ideal way to communicate, so we are currently working very hard with our local Division (Adelaide North East) to get local GPs, medical specialists, residential care facilities, pharmacists and other local health care providers such as physios to install and use Argus, so that we can all communicate electronically. The specialists are fairly interested, with three groups having installed Argus this week. We are awaiting their first electronic letters with their opinion and advice about our referred patients. I have yesterday sent my first two test letters to them via Argus to see how they go receiving my referrals in this way. I'll report some more about this when we have had some actual experience with using Argus, hopefully during the next very few weeks. I would like to mention one other useful thing that our system lets us do. Quite often we are asked to fax documents to people whose email address I know or obtain. We have HP1100A printer/scanner combos that we bought in 2000. Using the software that came with them, I can click 'email this document', feed the document into the scanner, which scans it rapidly at 600dpi (which is much better than most fax machines can do, I understand - certainly the image looks great - like a good quality photo or photocopy), the image is automatically converted into a TIFF image, an Outlook message (part of Small Business Server) is automatically created with the image attached, I choose or enter the recipients' email address, and away it goes, as a much better quality image and saving me the phone call that a fax would have cost, plus I get the delivery receipt to tell me that it was received successfully. All this is quite fast - maybe 30 seconds, and I don't have to walk to the office where the old lonely fax machine sits. -- Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens, South Australia 5086 Phone 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 Mobile 0407 181 683 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk __________ NOD32 1.1549 (20060519) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
