Hmm, I would doubt that you could find a generic application that you could for your purposes. Of course you could find something that was close and extend it to suite your needs but I would think the time and effort of understanding how the application was constructed and applying your customizations you'd be better off building it from scratch. It would take you the same amount of time and ultimately be more suited for your needs. For the most part what you want to do is quite easy, and you could have a rudimentary frontend working in about a week or two by just learning a little bit of PHP, HTML, and MySQL. The "hard" part of this project would be the automatic callbacks and label printing. Is this something that you could work on during the day or would you have to work on it at home during off hours? If you could pay a little for its development you might consider putting an ad in the paper looking for an open-source contractor (or anyone that wants to try). This would be a great job for a student or a person that would like to get some programming experience who has none. Have you searched freshmeat too see if there is something close or if there is callback and printing software that you could plug in? > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Rodríguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:22 PM > To: newbie > Subject: [newbie] SQL database for patient information > > > I'd like to create a simple SQL database and frontend for doctors to > store patient information and automate callbacks, backups, and label > printing. > > Of course I would like this to be an open source project. (GPL'd too, > as much as possible). Having had no experience with SQL, I'd like to > know the groups opinions/experiences to help choose between the > different SQL possibilities. (i.e. mySQL, PostgreSQL) > > But most importantly, I'd like to learn how not to recreate the wheel. > You see, I'm sure at least most of the backend work (while maybe not > specifically written to store patient information) may already be > written for some other purpose. In the end, it's just a > simple database > like any other, a few simple fields such as name, address, contact and > insurance info, and a few user customizable fields (mostly > for history). > > I've already looked at the open source medical software options and > didn't find anything that really suited my needs. > > Where can I find the information I need to make my efforts as > efficient > as possible? > > Thanks everybody! > > -Paul Rodríguez > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >
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