Quoting Tony Eviston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Horst Herb wrote: > >However, Vista is *very* US centric > > and non-US countries using it extensively (like Finland and Egypt) had to > do > > a lot of customization to suit their own particular health systems > > In terms of inciting people to upskill to write code for a FOSS EHR I > believe it is essential to have the database schema pinned down, > published and downloadable along with sample datasets of varying sizes. In principle yes. In a perfect world their would be a RACGP-endorsed standard schema which all vendors would use and could interoperate, competing with support and client features.
However one of the problems of gnumed is that the schema "ran ahead" of the GUI. Fact is, form must follow function to a certain extent, it's impossible to make a schema completely independently of the "bolts and-bolts" issues of client functionality. Mind you, the gnumed schema has been pretty stable for the past few years, is well-documented (heaps better than the competition anyway) and is reasonably locale-agnostic. http://salaam.homeunix.com/twiki/bin/view/Gnumed/DbStructure is a good place to start. My point is, if you want to re-start the push for an open-source EHR, rewuriting the backend isn't a good place to start, because that's not where the problem is. Ian _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
