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From: | Jim Busser |
Subject: | Re: [Gnumed-devel] splitting / rearranging multi-page PDFs |
Date: | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:19:16 -0700 |
On 20-Apr-09, at 1:42 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
1.) Receive fax transmission and have it convert to pdf. Hylafax can do thisor one could use tiff2pdf.
The TIFF likely needs to be archived. That is because we can be sure that in some jurisdictions (including my own) there are standards for imaging and archiving which require that the image be preserved in a suitable form. The TIFF file is a non-lossy capture of the originating fax's image data and I expect has to be preserved for admissibility into evidence. A secondary format (PDF) could be called into question as to the standard of faithfulness.
The TIFF would not have to be imported into GNUmed... a derived PDF could be imported instead.
But how could one most easily later figure out, from a GNUmed patient record, the source TIFF?
Would it be recommended that whatever would be the name of the source TIFF (xyz.tif) be re-used in the PDF name (xyz.pdf)?
If James T Kirk's record were later examined and a document of interest were examined as to its parts, would GNUmed have recorded into its back end the file name of the source of each part? IOW could GNUmed show xyz.pdf as the part thus enabling the auditor or legal adviser to know they will need the xyz.tif?
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