On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 04:28, David Derauf wrote: > We are entertaining the idea of scanning medical records that we are copying > for other purposes anyway.
We have been doing that for a couple of years now. Each patient gets a directory. Documents go into large TIFFs, several documents per file, but not so many that a PC or network gets strained by moving them, or that it gets difficult to actually find a page in the file. I don't believe we have anyone who needed more than half a dozen TIFFs to sensibly hold their old letters. Results tend to go into a database and then get shredded, but some don't have a format in our database, so get scanned to another TIFF called "results". > Thinking to the future, I thought that we should likely create some sort of > meaningful file structure for these scanned records If your practice has a 4 digit ID for each patient (as mine does, actually 6 but the first two characters are still blank/null/space/00) then doing a hierarchy of directories based on stepping through one digit at a time may help. We have done something similar for years with letters outward.
