Image Scanning Options with best Tools

 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).