> philippe Ameline wrote: > > Hi, > > Medical informatic is a complicated thing ; medical informatic > in France is a very complicated thing. > > However, with Nautilus systems in more than 50 hospitals, I can > now guess the kind of system that could work, and > (fortunately), I am close to convincing some major sites - and > expect a snowball effect for an open source system. I suspect you are correct. > If you have seen my web site (I must check the automatic > translation by alta-vista kindly pointed out by Andrew), you > have seen that we, at Nautilus, have sophisticated techniques > to allow structured description (description is the key word, > while usually structuration means simple coding or > classification), and if we use a classical interface (I mean > not a browser as client, but a "workstation" concept), we can > dinamically publish each and every document as an HTML page > (thats to say : load the structured tree that represents a > medical report, translate it in natural langage - currently in > french, find the appropriate template, and (at last) have an > HTML page). > > Why workstation ? because we think that the current concept of > knowledge management allows the come back of AI in medicine ; > we are closely studying Arden syntax and GLIF (since we know This would of course be a wonderful thing for outcomes and best practices. > how to view the whole patient file as a single structured tree, > we can work on it). You mean like this? http://www.freepm.org:8080/FreePM/emr/index_html (Donated icons accepted, and appreciated, so I can get rid of the object ID in the display!!) > The next step is to federate all those little servers with an > "URL server", a very simple Linux machine connected to > hospital's centralized patient database, and knowing, for each > patient, the list of his documents and for each document : > - the title > - the URL ...and like this? http://www.freepm.org:8080/FreePM/emr/F/EMR-970839389/Encounter-984004668/edit_encounter down to each object in the record. Kind of like the GEHR concept? Digital Creations' ZEO client can provide the federation. > - the access rights for physicians (read, know it exists, > nothing) > > This server could allow surfing in patients record from a > simple browser. > Can you criticize the concept, or if you think its worth it, > give me some pieces of code (C++ appreciated). I think it's a great idea. <s> No C++ though. All Python (okay, a little C here and there for performance). Later, -- Tim Cook, President - FreePM,Inc. http://www.FreePM.com Office: (901) 884-4126 ONLINE DEMO: http://www.freepm.org:8080/FreePM _______________________________________________ Freepm-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freepm-discuss
