Generally speaking, Worldox gives you a complete electronic record of all your documents, scans, emails, etc. However, there are some things that can’t readily be stored in Worldox. The most common is web pages. A web page is actually a collection of a dozen or more files - javascript, images, html pages, etc. So if you download a web page it comes across as all the individual files and is not accessible.
A similar case is MRI scans or similar imaging. Again, these are collections of images managed by a central program.
It turns out there is a simple, albeit retro lo-tech, way to access MRI scans. Copy the entire DVD including the program/viewers and all the files to a separate location on the server. I copied the entire DVD of a shoulder scan I had done a while ago to to W:\MRI\jhmri. The viewing program was called efilmlt.exe (a very common MRI viewer program) and was located in the efilmlite subdirectory on the DVD.
Then I created a batch file called “jhmri.bat” using notepad. The file contained a single line needed to run the viewer program: W:\mri\jhmri\efilmlite\efilmlt.exe. Different programs may require a slightly different script, but this should be fairly straightforward.
Then copy the batch file (in my case “jhmri.bat”) to Worldox and label it appropriately. A good practice would be the name of the MRI center, the name of the patient and the date of the MRI. Double clicking on that document will run the program.
You may need to get help creating a batch file, as it is somewhat old school (did you ever wonder why there are so many management tasks that you can easily still do in dos but not in windows?). Also, depending on your settings, the file may just open in Notepad. In that case you may need to get someone to edit the registry to fix a setting (you need to delete the
Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\File
Exts\.bat). Do not try to do this if you are not sure how to do it.
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