On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:37:28AM +0800, Richard Hosking wrote: > OpenEHR/GEHR etc have been around for 15 years or so - they have always > seemed to tread a fine line between commercial and open source. Ocean > Informatics has a commercial company structure and links to *very* > commercial bodies - I understand one the directors has been on the board > of HCN for example. Clearly this strategy has been successful in that > they have been able to get sponsorship to continue their work. They > have made the main deliverables open so I think they have a legitimate > claim to being "open". > Their work seems very well documented and has a solid research basis. I > think a good data model is probably necessary for properly designed > software. The Gnumedders have thought about this issue in a more > informal way. > It is not clear whether OpenEHR will become a standard, but it does seem > to have more penetration than any other model. Unfortunately they have > used C#, Eiffel, and Java for their work. They apparently have a DB > backend in C# which *may* be open sourced, but this is vapourware at > present. Agree on all points.
> It should be possible to convert the OpenEHR reference model/archetype > combination to SQL - I will attempt to do this by hand for a simple > archetype as a start. I'd be very interested in that. 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
