BBC medical records story

[David Hansen]

On 5 Mar 2002 at 21:49, Peter Tomlinson wrote:

> cards with 1Mbyte of flash memory.

Interesting.

>10K bytes allows a very
> good mug shot to be stored, or an Xray picture,

Some people have very large sets of notes and more than one picture. 
Not everyone is simple medically.

> so there is plenty
> more space for text records - and an A4 page of text takes 5K to 10K
> bytes.

As a government initiative records would undoubtedly be stored in 
Microshit Word format, which would increase file sizes rather a lot.



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