What standard does the German system adhere to? What is its relationship
with HL7?
John
At 06:06 PM 3/20/01, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Some Doctors are programmers, some are not, but each of them would like to
> > adapt his patient record to the way he works.
>Or rather: "have it adapted to the way she works".
>
> > In France, it's a pity to see all the little usefull tools that are running
> > outside of patient record, and can't be used in everyday practice because,
> > if you want to use it, you need to re-enter lots of data that are
> already in
> > patient record.
>Fortunately, here in Germany the situation is a little better. We have
>a solid, open, text stream, widespread standard for exchanging patient
>data between systems. Usually there is a separate option in the main
>menu to export large sets of many patients selected from a certain range
>of time or even selected according to other criteria. Also, usually,
>there is an option right in the individual EMR menu to export _this_
>patient. Unfortunately, however, most systems that I know of, only
>_ex_port individual patient data (why ??). They don't allow import
>(except via the clumsy way of abusing the general export/import
>option for whole sets of patients with just one patient record in
>a file. That option is intended to be used when switching from one
>system to another.) of individual records. That would be an almost
>ideal way of connecting a (well maintained) legacy system that can
>do all the horrible local billing stuff with a nice open EMR
>system. In fact, I am going to propose this to one of the vendors
>who offered to port his DOS based system (C or C++, don't know) to
>Linux compilability.
>
>I admire the French system for their use of a Health Professional
>Card. What potential do those cards have ? What are they used for ?
>We only have the patient card that isn't even a smartcard.
>
>Regards,
>Karsten Hilbert
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