Document Handling: Overview
 Working
with documents is what a filing system is all about, whether
those documents are in electronic or paper form. Thus A&L
Document Console offers a wide range of features
to handle documents.
First let us explain the structure of the filing system
that A&L
Document Console provides for the user. For the
medical user of the system, the major key for information
access is the client name. Within a given patient's (or
client) document, you can establish several different 'file
folders' called categories.
For instance, you may wish to have a separate file folder
or category for all of that patient's physicals, another
one for that patient's x-rays, one for prescriptions, one
for laboratory reports, and so on. You decide how you wish
to classify all the documents relating to a given client
according to your own needs.
Within a given file folder or category, you will have several
different records of the same type. For example, if Annual
Physicals is one of your categories, you may have a record
for each of the past three years. Each of these would have
a different title, namely Physical 1995, Physical 1996,
and Physical 1997, for example. Each of these would have
a specific originator or author (most likely you), and for
a given physical there may be several pages.
New information about a client can be input to A&L
Document Console either from scanning in a source
document or importing it electronically (i.e. from another
computer record on your computer or from another computer).
In either case it can be 'added' or 'appended'.
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