The point man for docle updates is Andrew Magennis of HCN MD. He has
all the strengths that I do not possess.
He is the man that ensures docle is a clean and strong list. However
you can also contact me offline on any docle issues.
Kuangie
On 23/11/2006, at 8:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I supposed I'm biased, but it does appear docle is maintained , as
when I am coding an encounter,
it usually comes up with what I want about 95% of the time.
Probably what's needed is a docle to
snomed bridge, as snomed might be hard to use when it eventuates.
On Thu Nov 23 7:03 , Tim Churches sent:
David Guest wrote:
> Tim Churches wrote:
>> Kuangie,
>>
>> That's very nifty but it says at the top of the page:
>>
>> "Docle Browser - (c) all rights reserved docle systems 1986-2006"
>>
>> All reasonable interpretations would take that assertion of all
>> available rights under the Copyright Act to extend to the Docle
codes
>> displayed in the Docle Browser.
>>
>> My understanding of the Australian Copyright act, having read it
several
>> times over the last few years, is that anyone else is thus
permitted to
>> view your Docle codes in the browser but not to copy them or
reproduce
>> them in any way, not even by cut-and-paste into in-house reporting
>> systems as David and Tony are setting up for themselves.
>>
> I am not sure if this is entirely true in this case, Tim. I've
got the
> codes in my database already. HCN no doubt have a Docle license.
I just
> want to know I've got everything I want.
No David, it's not your database. I suspect (but Kuangie as teh
owner of
Docle could confirm) that Docle has licensed its codes to HCN for
distribution in HCN products, but that doesn't mean that Docle has
licensed its codes to David Guest for use in a stand-aone OpenOffice
Base reporting system.
Now, Kuangie is rather unlikely to bring a law suit against you for
such
use, but it is the principle I am concerned about here: if the creator
of a coding system designed to represent medical or other knowledge
wants it to be widely used, then s/he really does have to provide a
proper license to allow that to happen under copyright law - otherwise
people who do use it are in a legal limbo. And not all creators of
medical coding systems are as nice as Kuangie.
Tim C
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