Storage of medical records etc

MouldyOldDough

B0bbyEwing said:

RumRat said:

You should be able to access all medical records ant tests etc via the NHS app.

I'm only scanning through the thread but you said "all" and "should". 

Not so. 

Take this from someone who has been trying to access records to bring a negligence claim against the NHS.

I had to get in touch with a department of the NHS, not the app. Even then only some records could be obtained. 

And then one had key information completely blacked out. 

None of it could be obtained via the app. 

I agree

That's why II have used SARS to get my historic records from various GPs and hospitals where I have lived in the past.

My present documents are largely missing from my medical records ..

replaced with "coded entry" "letter received" etc

I have asked admin where my actual documents are held and they say  

"The coded entry shown below is generated on the day a member of staff processes the clinical documents.

In this case your letter from the hospital was processed in our office on the <DATE> adding that XaKqd code on that date even though the document shows on the <NEW DATE> which was the date on the letter.

Everything we enter onto a medical record will have a code of some sort."

MouldyOldDough

I have renamed the folders to 01-Jan-1989 from 01-Jan-89 etc

and am manually sorting them in to Jan-89 large folders - which WHEN complete will be putting these MONTH folders in to YEAR folders

This must be automatable ?

Frozen_up_north

It is useful to be able to access your data with a smart phone or tablet, so if you find yourself needing the info while away from home, it can be viewed easily.

Google Drive gives you 15GB for free, whether you are comfortable with Google being able to access your data is up to you, but mostly I store my documents on Proton Drive (free for 5GB), which is an order of magnitude more secure than Google (ie only you have access, not Proton employees or anyone else for that matter). Proton Drive has an App for iPhone, and I guess for Android too.

Olinda99

If you want them to be sortable into date order then you should put the Year first followed by the month as a number followed by the day EG 19890128

otherwise April will come first and Feb will come before Jan ...

Heedtheadvice

I do hope you are doing all this work on a copy (or have a fixed original backup ) just in case of errors. So much work that there is a risk of mistakes.

You ask if the work can be automated.

Not working on the original but the copy, providing  there is consistency ( or known discrepancies ) then it is quite possible to program the work.

However you would need to be proficient at designing, writing and proving a program before using it for real ( and still have the original/backup(s) in case of errors!) - unless of course you don't care if it all gets misnamed or scrambled that cannot be easily recovered!!

MouldyOldDough

Another question - I was in hospital for several days / weeks, on several occasions in the 90's - what would I do for the data - should I simply put the docs in day 1 that I was in hospital or should I put a shortcut to every other day or what ?

MouldyOldDough

Frozen_up_north said:

It is useful to be able to access your data with a smart phone or tablet, so if you find yourself needing the info while away from home, it can be viewed easily.

Google Drive gives you 15GB for free, whether you are comfortable with Google being able to access your data is up to you, but mostly I store my documents on Proton Drive (free for 5GB), which is an order of magnitude more secure than Google (ie only you have access, not Proton employees or anyone else for that matter). Proton Drive has an App for iPhone, and I guess for Android too.

I agree - but first I need to get the data into a readable format - once I have this, I can decide what to do with it - I will not be relying on a single device for storage !

rmg1

Instead of creating the folders manually, why not use something like PowerShell to create the folders for you?  This is something I've used before and takes a few seconds to create the folders in (roughly) the format you want:-

# Set the base directory where the folders will be created

$basePath = "C:\Your\Base\Directory"  # Change this to your desired location

# Create folders from 1989 to 2040

for ($year = 1989; $year -le 2040; $year++) {

    $yearPath = Join-Path $basePath $year.ToString()

    if (-not (Test-Path $yearPath)) {

        New-Item -Path $yearPath -ItemType Directory

    }

    for ($month = 1; $month -le 12; $month++) {

        $monthName = (Get-Culture).DateTimeFormat.GetAbbreviatedMonthName($month)

        $monthFolder = "{0:D2}-{1}" -f $month, $monthName

        $monthPath = Join-Path $yearPath $monthFolder

        if (-not (Test-Path $monthPath)) {

            New-Item -Path $monthPath -ItemType Directory

        }

        # Get number of days in this month/year

        $daysInMonth = [DateTime]::DaysInMonth($year, $month)

        for ($day = 1; $day -le $daysInMonth; $day++) {

            $dayFolder = "{0:D2}" -f $day

            $dayPath = Join-Path $monthPath $dayFolder

            if (-not (Test-Path $dayPath)) {

                New-Item -Path $dayPath -ItemType Directory

            }

        }

    }

}

MouldyOldDough

This is an incredibly long winded task - but it's coming very slowly

is there any way that I can get some indication as to whether a folder is empty or it contains any files ?

Heedtheadvice

Windirstat app can be useful for this shows you a directory tree with stats https://windirstat.net/