Jim Self wrote:
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> I think the most interesting thing might be a binding to the VA Fileman DBMS
> (a MUMPS application) and to existing open source healthcare applications in
> the VA VistA. For this, Greg Kreis or Gregory Woodhouse might be of help.
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This issue has cropped up recently around here with a proposed new CPR
system. What I really want to know is what folks are thinking about,
here are the scenarios based on what I will loosely call schemas, by
which I mean the definition of records.
GEHR schema ==> mapped into ==> Pre-existing DBMS schema
or
GEHR schema ==> mapped into ==> new DBMS schema to accomodate mapping.
What I think I heard the GEHR folks asking for was help with the
latter approach for various DBMS's.
What I head Jim ask for was the former approach.
Now, it may be that the two approaches are the same, but I was thinking
that when you did a mapping from the ocean kernel to a DBMS you would be
rather unlikely to reach a 'schema' which matched anything that
pre-existed. For that to take place, I imagine one would need to invoke
some kind of active (i.e. rule based) transformation applied to the
'schema's' and the data.
