Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-06 Thread Tim.Churches
Tim Cook wrote: > As soon as you start embedding complex data into relational structours > you start losing the ability to recover "information". > > In the SPECIFIC instance of OSCAR, the act of creating PDF's as data > stores means there is no way to report back out of them so that data > qua

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-06 Thread Tim Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fred Trotter wrote:and we would have a > solid Java-based contender for the throne of US EHR systems. > OhC'mon. Let's be truly serious. There are SERIOUS data integrity/data quality issues that OSCAR must address before it is a contend

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-06 Thread Fred Trotter
This is a good time to point out that the only thing that keeps OSCAR from being a major player in the US, is its billing engine. We have tossed around an effort to intergrate FreeB with OSCAR for some time. If that happened FreeB would provide the US billing that OSCAR lacks, and we would have

Re: [openhealth] request for advice re electronic medical record

2006-05-06 Thread Jel Coward
Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > JAVA based Oscar Mcmaster is promising too but is unable to provide what > you want, at the moment. > OSCAR will do much of what you want (I am one of the British Columbia OSCAR users) The features most important to me are:     - Assist in meeting Medicare