Two unrelated questions. 1) Does anyone have any luck getting a hospital to release its lab results in HL-7 format? The mix of HL-7 and PDF makes me nuts.
2) What luck do you in other areas in getting pain specialists to see patients for non-procedure generating pain issues? I would dearly love to punt my chronic pain management problems (the more so with all the controlled substance scrutiny), but have no luck.
My hospital lab did get around and arrange an interface for AC, but it only works for the outpatient labs. When they are in the hospital we get PDF if we get anything at all.
Pain clinics don't appear to like managing narcotics any more than we do :^(
An interesting side note however, my local IPA in SoCal has more pain specialists under contract than dermatologists :^)
Greg
