On Wednesday 18 February 2004 08:33, Wilfried Goedert wrote: > >> I'm impressed with the size and activity of the project. > In Geneva there where 2 presentations made by me. You saw the second, > where i focused it to that point as example.
> Care2x is developed from Elpidio. He works in a German hospital. So > you have this impression if you take only a short view to it. Yes. That also came from my knowledge of the development of GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) and discussion of national cryptographic law and policies mainly on the UK-Crypto discussion list. We have some serious disquiet about the development of privacy legislation in the UK with particular regard to healthcare and electronic health records (EHR), and the German approach to personal identity numbers is regarded as superior for the purposes of privacy. Clearly a powerful faction of our State prefers to have the single identifier for its purposes. > Care2x as you see now, is the result of a short time of developement. > See it all as process. Yes. Also for a while I have regarded the technical challenges of introducing and making persistent Open Source software in healthcare as less difficult than the people problems, political commercial and legal problems and the challenge of setting up a working ecology around such software and the institutions using it. I'm pleased to see you have contact with the commercial arena. Joe Dal Mollin is good on the ecology aspect, and it is one of the areas where some members of OSHCA are accumulating experience and trying out ideas. I have not said anything about care2ex that was intended to be critical, I appreciate it is your baby and you are all sensitive about it, and I was amazed at and after Geneva how something so large and potentially useful could have stayed below my radar for so long. Part of it I am sure is my poor language skills, being largely limited to English. I hope Care2ex can find uses and kindred spirits in OSHCA, and that now teh problems with the OpenHealth list have been addressed we can cross-fertilise on that. -- Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop) GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
