“Electronic medical records, document scanning, email, secure messaging and computer-based faxing have all served to put downward pressure on the amount of paper modern medical practices have to handle on a day to day basis. However while nearly all general practices are able to receive and process pathology reports sent from geographically distant laboratories using purely digital workflows, many practices still rely on paper as a means of viewing the data produced by medical devices situated in their own treatment rooms.”
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Simon James, Pulse+IT, 26 July 2011
