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e-Pathways

Welcome

This is the home page of the CD included with the book:

    e-Pathways - computers and the patient's journey through care,

    Editors:  Kathryn de Luc and Julian Todd, Radcliffe Medical Press, 2003, ISBN 1 85775 903 6

The web pages and documents on the CD should work in any recent web browser software and are best viewed at full screen.  External web sites should open in a new browser window.

The CD contains:

  • An overview of the book, arranged by chapter, with links to internet resources mentioned in the book, plus additional documents on the CD.  Note that the free Adobe Acrobat reader software is required to view some of the files.  If you do not have this program on your PC, click here for instructions.
  • Links to resources for the care pathway "Community of Practice"    - information and services on the world-wide web, which support care pathway development and implementation, including the National Electronic Library for Health care pathway database.  More information about the idea of a Community of Practice can be found in Chapter 3, Appendix 2.
  • A table of care pathway related web sites.  Note that many web sites are also listed in the appendices to Chapter Two.
  • A 30 day evaluation copy of the systems modelling software - System Architect - described in Chapters Five and Six of the book.  This part of the CD is provided courtesy of  Popkin Software and Systems Ltd., and includes health-care based examples, introductory guides and other supporting material.

Disclaimer

Use of this CD is at your own risk.  No liability for errors, damage to computers or other costs will be accepted by the book editors, Radcliffe Medical Press or Popkin Software and Systems Ltd. resulting directly or indirectly from use of the material on this disc.  Documents on the disc have been obtained from public web sites, or with the permission of the authors.  The editors and publishers do not warrant the accuracy of the material, nor that it is the latest version, nor that it is copyright free.  All reasonable efforts have been made to check that internet links are accurate and up to date.  Readers are invited to publicise significant changes and interesting new internet sites via the care pathway online communities described in the Community of Practice section.

Adobe Acrobat install

The software publisher Adobe has created a document data standard called "Portable Document Format"  (PDF) which allows accurate read-only copies of many different types of computer file to be distributed electronically.  Acrobat files have a filename ending in ".pdf".  To read these, you need the Acrobat reader software, which is distributed free by Adobe.  Using Acrobat reader, you can view files on screen or print them out exactly as the author intended them to appear.  Acrobat reader can also run within versions of web browser software as a "plug in", so from within your browser you should be able to click on the links to the Acrobat documents on this CD and view them in a browser window.

If you do not have Adobe Acrobat reader installed, The latest version and more information can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.

A copy of version 4 can be installed by running the program "D:\acrobat\ar40eng" (where "D:\" stands for your CD drive letter - change this to the correct letter on your PC).  Use the Start | Run menu in Windows to run this program.