On Monday 25 November 2002 18:32, Heitzso wrote: > Our branch needs to query and report against distributed data sources, > i.e. epidemiology research in which sickness/death correlated > with race/age/sex/pop/geo along with pollution indices and > other data sources (water tables, wind speed, ??).
The Meterological office in the UK is doing some of this sort of thing in prediction from the predicted weather how the incidence of certain diseases or events will change in teh next few days, allowing hospitals to consider how close to maximaly they may use their beds etc. The Met Office is moving to Exeter very soon. Dragging the information the other way, out of an arbitrarily large number of medical record systems, is one theoretical use for the MIQUEST query generator and interpreters, whcih use HQL - a superset of a subset of SQL - "Health Query Language" - to raise congruent reports from each of many systems. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
