We have been attempting to write a medical records system for the poor in developing countries. A most worthwhile project.
The goal has been to develop a web based application to store medical records and provide patient histories to medical personnel in developing countries. The system must use biometrics for patient identification as the patient's generally have common names, no addresses, unknown date of birth, etc. Towards that end, I have engaged 2 software companies. The first failed entirely, the second did an "OK" job, but at the end, their developer was diagnosed with cancer and abruptly retired. I set about doing the work myself and have developed a pretty nifty interface using Ajax and other plugins from the Jquery community. I discovered early on that many features didn't work well in Internet Explorer and proceeded with the idea that Firefox would be the required platform. The problem is that when I tried to interface with the fingerprint system, I learned that IE is a requirement. They have an object that loads using activeX. There are several possible solutions, most exceed my technical abilities: Figure out how to load the activeX object within Firefox Fix the application so that it works with IE The idea solution is to do both, but help/direction/guidance would be most appreciated.
