Personnel may no longer use their own cameras for EMS incidents, now that the department is providing cameras on the CF-20 Toughbooks. The overall process is two-fold:
- Take the picture (saved in the Windows My Pictures folder).
- Attach to the eMEDS patient report (optional, as you may also just show hospital personnel the picture from the Windows folder instead)
Note: You may only use the CF-20’s camera for an incident if it is specifically for patient care (i.e., to show hospital personnel items such as auto accidents, medication lists, etc). Additionally, please note that you are not permitted to take video — only photos. One final point: Each picture will be wiped from the folder automatically, 24 hours after it is saved to the Windows folder.
To take a picture with the Toughbook:
- Click the Menu button, located at the bottom of the screen (next to the Validate button).
- Click the Attachments button.
- Click the Add New button.
- Expand the Document Type drop-down list and select Other Picture/Graphic.
- Click either the Take Picture button (to take the photo then and there) or the Browse button to navigate to a saved photo. (For the former, tap the screen to take the picture. For the latter, select the saved photo and tap the Open button).
- Click the two successive OK buttons.