> I had in mind, notionally, a daemon consisting of a single executable which > would be made by joining together two sections of code. > > One is written once and is the same wherever the daemon is to run, and > whatever medical record and prescription _generator_ is being used. > > The other is written once for the UK (well, 1.2 times since Northern Ireland > has a different layout for prescriptions from England Wales and Scotland), > once for France, once for each State of the Union and so on. > But is unaffected by changes in the clincial reocrd system and prescription > generator.
[...] > Is this a sensible open source component to envisage? > ...................... and to suggest building and making available? Absolutely. It is a pity you probably don't have time to join GnuMed with what excellent taste in programming you display (this is NOT meant satirically). At some point GnuMed will have to acquire form printing capabilities. For all I care it could just as well interface with the abovementioned demon. Architecturally, the way GnuMed will handle patient memory cards (which we have here in Germany) is exactly like this: A demon polling/being IRQed to read the data from the cards into files and GnuMed checking upon certain locations regularly to pick up newly inserted/read cards. We've got one developer working on this (www.libchipcard.de). Regards, Karsten Hilbert -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
