For those not on the openhealth list ----- > 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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