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> Adrian,
> 
> > Do any existing open source systems readily import and 
> > export a patient 
> > record so that it can accompany the patient to the next 
> > place and be read in there?
> 
> Yes. FreePM does. This was a major design consideration 
> from the start. It is also the reason that the financials 
> were separated from the EMR. Due to the nature 
> (containerized objects) of how FreePM is built you can 
> export an entire (or portions if you choose) EMR and 
> import it into another FreePM site.  It currently does 
> this in a Zope export file or using XML as a Zope XML 
> file (this is a very messy but functional XML format).  I 
> would 'like' to have an EMR XML file but the reality is 
> that is a huge undertaking to design and frankly I 
> thought the XML standards community would eventually 
> provide one.  Since man hours is a finite resource it is 
> not a realistic task for me to undertake.  It "will" be 
> relatively easy to me to conform to such a standard when 
> it surfaces.  Until then I am only concerned with 
> exchanging data between FreePM sites.  
> 
> As an example of this working.  You may note that the 
> records created on the demo site remain the same for each 
> beta version (with a few exceptions) I do not develop on 
> that site.  I export and re-import those demo records 
> each time I do an upgrade.  
> 
> HTH,
> Tim Cook
> http://www.freepm.org 
> 

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