http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9316246/ Hurricane highlights need for digital records Destroyed medical information causing difficulty in making diagnoses
.... Hurricane Katrina destroyed or left inaccessible the medical records of untold numbers of people .... One bright exception: Even though the New Orleans VA Medical Center flooded, electronic medical records for 50,000 patients of that hospital and surrounding veterans' outpatient clinics survived. On Sept. 1, a Department of Veterans Affairs computer specialist was airlifted from New Orleans carrying backup tapes of all the records, which by the next night had been re-entered into computers in Houston. "Every single thing on that computer was saved," said Charlie Gephart, records chief for the South-Central VA Healthcare Network. .... ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
