On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:25:37AM +0100, Adrian Midgley wrote: > GNUMED is being developed, I understand, on the basis that it will be > released when it is ready, not to a deadline. But that "ready" is defined for release 0.1 by a) a minimal set of absolutely required functionality (say, entering a patient) and b) use cases - and very few at that. From 0.1 onwards it will be use cases only, eg. we define a goal, in most instances one that solves a particular doctor's problem and implement that - in a way that's clean and extensible.
This is precisely why the only part of GNUmed already in production is the document scanning/indexing/viewing solution -- because it has been in use in my parent's practices for well over two years now. This is also why the first release contains such things as a) export of EMR into ASCII file (for handing to patient/other doctors) and b) remote-control of the GNUmed API via XML-RPC by 3rd-party software (because using GNUmed in conjunction with other software will be the rule rather than the exception). > Looking at the opinions published by the US Leapfrog Consortium, and > reviewing my memories of the development of UK General Practice software > over some decades, the prescribing system seems to be the first clinical > tool to be of obvious value. And one of the most complex pieces of an EMR at that if you do not want to just do it "somehow". Karsten Hilbert GNUmed i18n coordinator -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
