Bluechip provides a facility for importing external documents and third-party files, and storing them in a patient's record. Essentially, any file type associated with an application installed on your computer including spreadsheets, word processor files, text files and image files can be added to the document database. This facility is called ImageLite.
Bluechip also provides a TWAIN-compliant interface for scanning external documents (such as X-Rays or patient letters). When documents are scanned, Bluechip simply activates your third-party scanning software, the scan is conducted in this software, and the resulting file is then imported to Bluechip - Bluechip is not provided with its own built-in scanning software.
Documents can be added to a patient's record via the ImageLite menu in a patient's open record.
The Bluechip definition of 'documents' should not be confused with 'letters'; in Bluechip terms, a document is an imported file, whereas a letter is correspondence created with a word processor.
Although a surgery might receive a hard-copy letter from another specialist (for example), when that letter is added to a patient's record by scanning or importing it, it becomes a 'document' and is accessible via the ImageLite menu in the Patient Explorer.