Many of the incoming documents are printed on both sides and, in this regard, the scanner should be able to handle this aspect, preferably by identifying and removing blank pages as the document is processed and saved.
Color
and resolution
Of course, documents must
be able to be scanned in color or monochrome, and the scan quality, measured in
dots per inch (DPI), must be configurable.
Within companies
increasing amounts of documents are transmitted electronically. However, this
represents less than a third of all incoming documents. For the remaining
documents, paper documents, digitization solutions allow them to enter the
workflow of the company. These scanned documents can be shared, modified,
information can be extracted and they can be signed.
The investment of a few
hundred dollars in a scanner can be recouped in just a few months, even in the
case of the smallest companies as long as all the functionalities mentioned
above are taken into account.
A provincial council
transmits the letter of a lawyer requesting an opinion concerning the ethical
rules relating to the communication to a general practitioner dealing with
protocols and medical imaging documents by a specialist treating a hospital.
The best Image Scanning solutions should
be there.
Opinion
of the National Council:
The National Council took
note of this draft reply and approved the text with some modifications and
clarifications.
This response can be
formulated as follows:
“In response to your
question asking whether it is ethically obligatory for the treating specialist
to communicate to the treating general practitioner the medical imaging
documents and protocols of the medical file of the treating specialist doctors
of the hospital, the National Council is able to tell you that the following
elements should be taken into account:
·
the obligation to inform (all useful and
necessary information) with a view to the continuity of care as defined in
Article 13 of Royal Decree No. 78 relating to the exercise of the health care
professions and to article 41 of the Code of medical ethics);
·
the patient's right to consult his file
and to obtain a copy thereof (cf. law on patient rights of 22 August 2002);
·
the possibility of communicating medical
imaging documents to the patient (see article 42 of the Code of medical
ethics).
