Ian Haywood wrote:

>Basically an EHR project which focusses on Australian requirements, and in its 
>design keeps
>itself within the meagre intellectual capacities of the programmers.
>I hope to have something to show at 1280cc.
>
>For others to help we first need to lock down and document not so much the 
>external requirements, but the
>internal ones: database design policy, middleware and how data moves around, 
>and GUI design policy,
>so different people can write compatible modules.
>It was the inability to make these decisions that paralysed gnumed for so 
>long. (and we
>finally ended up with a (personally) rather daunting 'neither-fish-nor-fowl' 
>solution)
>
>This technical decisionmaking is what I tried to get started on the 
>ozdocit.org wiki, but we have heaps of wildly different
>solutions with no clear way of choosing a single one. Also, many people are 
>indifferent to the
>amount of programmatic work their favourite solution represents. Richard and I 
>are doing what we *can*
>do, which certainly isn't the best solution, but IMHO would still be better 
>than most of the commerical offerings
>(mainly because we are like two little gnomes standing on the PostgreSQL 
>giant's head)
>  
>
Ian

I was not aware of your wiki efforts and stumbled across them earlier
this week. I note your previous requests for a more detailed
specification, which I perhaps too lightly dismissed. If we can gather
sufficient resources for a serious attempt at a doable gmII, I would be
more than happy to help.

David








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