CCS DATA DESIGNS PAPER-FREE OFFICE

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 24, 1993                   TAG: 9303240042
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-11   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short
CCS DATA DESIGNS PAPER-FREE OFFICE
The valley's oldest computer store, CCS Data Station, has designed and built a paper-free office, a combined effort of Radford cardiologist Dr. J. Craig Barnett and CCS managing partner and senior engineer Larry S. Maccherone.
Barnett's office does everything from patient notes and dictation to general record keeping and office memos by computer. His system includes networked personal computers, customized software and Write Once Read Only Memory hardware for patient-related information that can be added to, but not changed or deleted. In case of a power outage, Maccherone integrated a battery backup that keeps the computers running awhile before shutting them off with files intact.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB