Hugh Leslie wrote: > Hi Ian > > I like the idea of a web service - this fits very nicely with the idea of a > service oriented architecture where you can pick and choose what services > that you want to use. A smart service like this would cache on the local > machine or server so that only updates/or new interactions would pause the > system (although with enough grunt at the other end you might not notice the > pause - done a google search lately!?). > > Broadband internet is going to become a necessity and not a luxury at some > stage and failover support for these kind of services will also become a > necessity. Agree absolutely. It's not me you have to persuade about reliable high-speed Internet for all GPs in Australia, it's Telstra. If you were building a database of all the medication histories of all the patients in Australia, this would be a great way to go. But for for a list of clinically-significant interactions, essentially a list of 50-200 drug-pairs (probably half of which will be with warfarin) it seems overkill.
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