| Receiving
patient information by email can be convenient.
However,
unless encrypted, emailed patient information becomes a medico-legal
minefield
Our
latest innovation elegantly solves the problem.
Bluebird
now provides 3 options to receive
secure electronic clinical information. This
newsletter outlines the 3 options we provide and attempts to outline the
advantages of each. Hopefully this helps you to chose the one best suited for
your practice. |
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1. Bluebird's Secure e-mail
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Advantages:
- No special software to install
- Reports appear in your email package
- You do not need to be on-line to read reports
- You control your password on the Bluebird web
service. To open the attachment you only need the
password you have selected
- This option is particularly attractive for practices
that receive only a few reports each day. It means
that you do not need to look in your Bluebird inbox
only to find there are no reports
- Future versions will allow you to select specific
reports to come to your email e.g. only urgent reports
or consultations
- Cell phones that receive email (such as Blackberry)
can have clinical reports arrive on the cell phone
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Disadvantages:
- Reports in your email package making it very
difficult to search for previous reports and
cumulative reports and graphs are not possible
- Attachments are bigger than the reports that are
downloaded by Bluebird's desktop applications.
- Integration with your practice management system is
difficult.
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| How
to enable this service:
Click
the patient communication button (on the full report page on the web service)
and select the preferences tab. You need to enter an email address and a
password and decide if you want the reports labelled as read or not (on the web
service).
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Reading
the PDF attachments requires a PDF reader such as Adobe's
free reader (usually supplied with your computer).
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