Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> It's not like the proprietary guys here give a d*** about interoperating. > Fortunately they have to provide some interface since there is a German > standard for calling medical equipment like ECG/EKG, urinalysis, peak flow > meters. That is called GDT and hands out a flat file to the other application > containing patient details and more or less requests like 'start EKG'. The > legacy application will then read back the results file and store it some > place. That's where we hook into. GNUmed is a 'medical device' for the time > being. GNUmed receives and send flat files. Do not ask what crimes I would commit to have such a standard over here. We have been begging, pleading our government for years to set standards: all has fallen on deaf ears. > How do you guys drive in-practice medical equiment ? Because of the above, we generally don't. > > One last question I do have. Tell me a little more about Australian IT. > Is it true that you don't have a ecosystem of small IT shop hacking away on > software, doing consulting and providing service ? No matter for which OS. Most IT shops are 100% Windows and don't do any coding themselves. They and their clients are mutually convinced that the other will never use anything else. Recently, I found it's not as much "doom-and-gloom" as I've made out previously: there are 1 or 2 techs who will use support linux for mailserver/firewall etc. while keeping the client boxes windows. Psychologically this is quite a big shift in itself, currently the lack of clinical software means the next step is academic. The only linux client setup I have heard of is Horst's: he uses thin clients and runs his clinical software under Win4Lin. I am hopeful at least one of these IT guys could be persuaded to support thin linux clients (i.e the no-configure 'shoebox' things) and postgres on the server, there's certainly 5-6 clinics who then would be interested in his area (New South Wales) > Is it true that it is too hard or unattractive to set up a small shop > yourself ? When gnumed goes "prime-time" I would consider sitting the LPI exam so I can tout myself as a support person, mainly to counter the "there is no support" argument: I would not expect to make any actual money. > I guess it might be possible to do so but the chances of gathering clients > are > equally low as over here. But don't you think it's easier here. Would you consider providing remote support in Australia, using VoIP and SSH? (seriously) Ian _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
