Oliver Frank wrote: > There are a number electronic clinical messaging systems available in > Australia. The Argus clinical messaging system is the leader in > desirable features, including the facts that it is the only > non-commercial system in wide use and that it imposes no charges to send > or receive messages.
"Non-commercial" is not quite right because the Argus folks *are* running a business (and that's a good thing, and they should keep doing so). However, apart from a) the lack or per-message charges, the other things which sets Argus apart are that b) it is the only openly interoperable secure messaging system, c) the only one that will keep working even if the vendor goes belly-up or decides to withdraw from the Australian market (due to its reliance on well-support and ubiquitous SMTP mail services provided by every ISP and data centre and even every practice Linux server in the country), and d) the only one which has its main software code base freely available under an open source license. a) and b) make the Argus approach extremely scalable and c) and d) make it a very low risk proposition from a business perspective. But all that is a bit long-winded to have included in your otherwise excellent letter. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
