Hi, On Monday 08 March 2004 13:10, J. Antas wrote:
> About the PID concept, also named MPI, the following was taken from the > openhealth list: > "State of the art may be in the eye of the beholder, but we have a > component out of which an MPI can be built. It is an implementation of > the Person Identification Service (PIDS) specification of the OMG. This > includes patient correlation management, merging, etc. It is available > at http://OpenEMed.org as part of the OpenEMed software suite. It has > a FreeBSD style license. It should fit into your J2EE environment quite > well although it has no dependencies on J2EE. > It supports almost any kind of database underneath it and can work in a > fully distributed environment with security." Thanks for this. I will try to look into the said resource. The above passage sounds to be more of a promotional ads than an info though (Hey, they all are suddenly learning marketing and promotion! ). I prefer to call it PID and to mean Person ID not Patient ID. Using anonymized data systems, global statistics can be made (not only for healhcare related matters). > I bet you were inspired by: > http://www.mail-archive.com/openhealth-list%40minoru-development.com/msg107 > Well... it was described a few years ago and at that time it was not > considered such a clever idea. I wish somebody could tell me why it was not considered a clever idea. > But if you still want to go that way, first take a look at "Anatomy of > Credit Card Numbers" that you may find at: > http://www.merriampark.com/anatomycc.htm > > It seems that VISA, among other tests also tried that and it showed to > be not practical. I also wish that somebody could explain why it showed to be impractical. The link to the credit card anatomy showed that the first few digits are related to ISO country standard. Btw: I am very satisfied with VISA. (this is not an advertisement). > The first law of open source says: > "In face of a new problem try first to search and reuse an already made > and proofed solution" > > If that fails then, and only then, reinvent the wheel yourself... :-) That is true. If there is a successful global healthcare numbering system out there already, then we follow it. If not, then we invent it. Why not? Now the current question is: Where can we find such a system to copy? > Well, they do have to deal with country specific idiosyncrasies at > identifying patients, do they? If people see the advantages of a global unique PID (if there is any), then the acceptance will not be that difficult. If some countries dont accept it due to any reason beyond normal logic, then just leave them. Still, I am looking for concrete works and results related to this matter. Any hints and pointers are welcome. Regards, elpidio ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
