Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-02 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
The Dutch government has been trying to get something like this for years; parliament is asking every new minister why the promised heaven has not yet arrived, only to hear that more consultants are needed. I have been to hearings of our parliament and I can tell you such events are extreme

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-02 Thread Tom Hawkins
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Antoine Latter wrote: > A good place to start is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL7 , which is a > not-for-profit organization which tries to define interfacing > standards between medical devices and medical records providers.  I > haven't worked much with their stan

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-02 Thread wren ng thornton
Tom Hawkins wrote: At the core, the fundamental problem is not that complicated. It's just storing and retrieving a person's various health events: checkups, prescriptions, procedures, test results, etc. The main technical challenges are database distribution and patient security. Both are fun

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-01 Thread Antoine Latter
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Tom Hawkins wrote: > My family and I are moving in the coming months.  My wife will be > attending a new school in the fall.  Among the many hassles of moving > are locating and transferring medical records to new doctors and > clinics.  During our time in Minnesot