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Comedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits

(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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One of the biggest selling medical practise management software suites, over here in Oz, has some interesting features. I first became aware of this when I was sorting a network problem out for a surgeon mate of mine. He came into the office, got out a DVD and stuck it in a machine then printed out a whole series of full colour images, on photo-quality paper, from an operation he'd just done. Then he took the images, went to the scanner, and scanned the images into the practise management software. Then he shredded the images he'd just printed out. I was gob-smacked.

It turns out that this software has no facility for uploading images to a patients record directly from media. But it *does* have a scan function.

Cheers
(, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 9:45, 7 replies)

happy wax and flames
(, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 9:49, closed)
*Proud*

I is 8.

My balls drop soon....
(, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 11:36, closed)
Is there not a 'print to file' feature?
Alternatively, is there a bonus for money-saving suggestions? If not, suggest they implement one, with an incentive of, perhaps, 10% of realised savings. Then suggest a 'save from media' feature, or 'print to file' training.
(, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 10:23, closed)
These Are
surgeons.

Scarily bright in their own field but can't tie a shoelace by themselves. Doctors and computers just don't get on....

Cheers
(, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 11:37, closed)
Target the practise management software company?
Programmers can be scarily smart in their own fields too, and much less able to tie their own shoes. Two minutes of coding and they've got the new, improved version ready for sale. That should be worth some cash. Ring them!
(, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 19:48, closed)
'kin 'ell
We must be working with the same printers.
Drawer 2 always was a little bit sticky.
(, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 10:26, closed)
candle!
cheers.
(, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 13:25, closed)

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