On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:20:01AM -0200, Daniel Minahim wrote: > 1) Of course we've got to keep in mind the local requirements (eg. German EMR > file, maybe the brazilian XML DTD for health records). But those should be > peripheral projects. That's why I have solicited input from as many on-list as possible.
> 2) Although an international standard for EMR isn't readily available OpenEHR comes closest. Note that there is a difference between a health messaging standard and a health data storage standard. > We can come up with one top level standard No, we can't (or rather shouldn't). (Well, anyone can embark on that journey but that's not the journey GNUmed is intended to take as far as I am concerned as it's a sure way of wrecking GNUmeds true objectives.) Remember, we are masons building a home. (Actually we are the people who want to *live* in that home, sad enough we have to build it ourselves.) We sure as hell don't want to invent brick and mortar. We can, however, shop around a bit for who's got the best build-your-home kit and perhaps combine a few things here and there. > We have a chance of creating a 'de facto' standard or > working with IMIA or WHO. Down that road lies peril only. > The later should be interested in standard that came from > a international cooperation group. "should" is the key word here. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
