Tim Churches wrote:
It would also work very nicely as a store-and-forward facility for interchange of HL7 messages - Amazon S3 would effectively be the unintelligent data-store-and-retrieve middleman - but gee, they don't charge much - I suspect that the bill for even a large path lab might only be a few tens of dollars per month. Some open source code to add the smarts and encryption at the sending and receiving ends and you have the makings of a very cheap but potentially very robust secure health data exchange service with an architecture rather similar to that offered by Healthlink etc, but with negligible per-message costs.
Argus seems to be "open source code" that "adds the smarts and encryption at the sending and receiving ends" and provides "a very cheap but potentially very robust secure health data exchange service".
How would Amazon S3 be better than this? What would be its advantages over using Argus?
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