>> Hi all >> >> Have you guys thought of starting a campaign to get both liberal and labor >> to force common data schematics for your medical information? Has any one >> tried it before? > > Which "common data schematics for medical information" did you have in > mind to force everyone to use, James? > > The problem is coming up with a LCD (lowest common denominator) data > schema which is satisfactory for all concerned, let alone one which > actually keeps everyone happy. > > Tim C
Hi James, It's a commercial impossibility, however, that any company would refuse to make a practices data available in some form of unencrypted format (raw tables, XML etc) if requested. Potential customers don't like hearing these sorts of things. I also doubt however, that any company would go much further beyond this step which I see as a reasonable (realistic) minimum standard of service given the highly competitive market vendors operate in. As happens now, the onus will always be on the "importing" software company to write the conversion to extract data from the "exporting" software or "exporting" software's data output if available. Companies that have devoted the resources to such programming stand to gain from "switchers" (which is more difficult than most think), companies that haven't won't/can't. The "exporting" software shouldn't actively hamper this "import" process by refusing to make the data available in some sort of unencrypted form, but in the absence of an agreed common data set (which as Tim indicated is unlikely to happen), the current market arrangement is what's likely to continue. So... not ideal for consumers, but not likely to change any time soon with or without political interference/intervention. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
