That's why I said as far as we know. Last year one wasn't able to do it. Thngs are obviously improving.
Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Van Dyck Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 10:13 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] backup! - FOSS databases vs entrenched solutions MD3 will import MD2 patients via export/import in XML. This is how I handed over some of my records locally to other practices who only use MD2. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Meyerowitz Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 9:37 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] backup! - FOSS databases vs entrenched solutions Horts & Greg BP will export & import patient files from BP. BP will fully convert a whole MD2 dataset from MD2 & import it (& does it so easy and perfect, that you don't need some-one to hold your hand), BP will import patients singly from MD3 with all past notes etc present. A few items don't convert like recalls (because of HCN problems). Now the opposite does not apply. MD2 won't import patients from BP, nor will MD3 import MD2 as far as we know. MD3 can't import BP data as far as we know. So some players have tried to make things work, but others hasn't. As you know some other players also have conversion programs from MD2 to theirs, but the reverse again doesn't apply. We were all given a link to an article from the UK. I give the link again. http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/news/item.cfm?ID=2546 Now some feedback from the UK says & I quote: "I guess any good news has to be promoted by NPfIT but the GP2GP figures don't make as good reading when you realise it only includes EMIS and INPS systems and 80% of those are EMIS. Where's TPP, iSOFT, etc? OK if you transfer from on EMIS practise to another but not if you move to a non-EMIS practise". So in Australia if a patient moves from BP practice to BP practice - we are okay, if from MD2 to BP and a few others, then we are better than the UK as coversions from MD2 to a few software packages already exist(in UK currently only has 2 systems involved). And if patient moves from MD3 to BP we are also okay - and this is without government funding. Yet this list got rather excited about the UK development, forgetting that here down under things are not so bad. Cedric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Twyford Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2007 4:31 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] backup! - FOSS databases vs entrenched solutions Horst Herb wrote: > There is choice as long as you are not locked in - and currently > virtually every single GP you ask when questioned why not chnagng the > product they seem to detest so much is that there is no safe and easy > migration path to alternatives Horst, This is an interesting but depressing observation in the context of the discussion in hand. What you have really touched on is the stagnation of the GP clinical system marketplace because a real path forward can't be identified. All the paths on offer seem to risk leading back to a similar quagmire. I think that any new players will have to look very carefully at what they offer, and it seems to me that if Simon's two new players end up producing two new versions of the 'same-old, same-old', then their chances of surviving are very poor indeed. Every new player claims revolutionary new features and unparalleled functionality and stability, but I think the market has become jaded by such claims, which they've heard ad nauseam, hence the stagnation. Contrary to what Simon has asserted, a really radical FOSS solution might work in gaining market share, but that leaves us wondering where it will emerge from. 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