Hi Seref, My experience would largely match Heather's - Normally working in a connected environment but fairly often I will be in-transit with poor or no internet access and it would be frustrating to be unable to do any archetyping/templating in these circumstances.
Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant,?Ocean Informatics, UK Director/Clinical Knowledge Editor openEHR Foundation ?www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL SCIMP Working Group, NHS Scotland BCS Primary Health Care ?www.phcsg.org On 22 December 2011 03:00, Heather Leslie <heather.leslie at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > Interested to hear more of your thoughts! > > > > I usually choose to model in a formal office environment, using a two > screens for Editor and mind map etc, so internet is usually available. > However, given that, I was modelling on a plane yesterday and we have no > internet available on any flights here yet ? so yes, on occasions I do model > outside that online environment. > > > > I expect that an optional less powerful offline mode would be a necessary > plan B if this online approach is pursued. > > > > Consider Turbo-powered vs Normal mode!!?? > > > > Heather > > From: openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org > [mailto:openehr-clinical-bounces at openehr.org] On Behalf Of Seref Arikan > Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2011 5:09 AM > To: For openEHR clinical discussions > Subject: Question to clinical modellers: are you usually online when you're > working? > > > > Greetings, > I would like to get the opinion of clinical modelling community about the > requirement of being online. > This is not a question about using web based tools. Even if you're using a > modelling tool that does not require a browser, would it be a problem for > you if the tool required that you are online? > > There are some quite convenient features that I would like to think I can > introduce to modelling tools, but the problem is, some of these features may > require lots of computing power, even special hardware in some cases, or > they may simply be too large or tricky to deploy. > > Apple's recently released Siri, the voice recognition feature for iPhone 4s > is a quite good example for the type of requirement I'm talking about. It > helps in some cases, but the processing power requirements and quite > possibly the mechanics of machine learning requires that Siri does its work > using Apple's servers. > > Would this kind of requirement for modelling tools be a serious problem for > you? I'd appreciate your feedback. > > Best regards > Seref > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > openEHR-clinical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical
