Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Iztok Stotl wrote: > > > Does this kind of aplication already exist ? > For my knowledge: Yes and no. > > > Many doctors have problems colecting data for their clinical research in > > medicine. This is especially a problem when they want to collect data > > betwen different hospitals. This is usually a lot of paperwork.
> This are task which are covered by so called "Content Management Systems" > (CMS) and they are by no means special for medical care tasks. Often CMS > are adapted to special needs for certain projects. There is also the work done by HL7 for a standard "Patient Record" data structure. It pretty much defines what they consider the necessary data that a hospital or other health service provider needs on a particular patient. By making a standard, this should facilitate the transfer of electronic client records between such organizations. I'm not exactly sure if this pertains to the subject matter at hand, however, and I just throw it out in case others are not aware of their work. Of course, it's not an application but simply the abstract definitions of the records themselves. See <http://www.hl7.org/> for more information. Elizabeth
