unfortunately, that's a big if. What's the rate of uptake for computerized records nowadays : are almost all of the potential emr converts already converted/locked-in with the current crop of cottage industry applications ? Maybe someone should try to use some statistical method (like monte-carlo or bayesian filters) to look at the data contained generically ( just need to know how to access 4D databases, microsoft SQL, foxpro, and possibly firebird/interbase ) look for common patterns of data layout/ character/word sequences , and attempt extractions into a common ehr schema format. Doable ? say for a/some university researcher(s) ? On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:22 +0800, Richard Hosking wrote: > Yes after a few months on the Rails thing I have given up for the moment > Too many other things > > But as you say later an OSS platform that just started with the basics - > billing/front desk/basic records EHR would certainly get things going if > there was a reasonable number of users and data. You could build all > sorts of things on top of it. > > R > > David Guest wrote: > > > David More wrote: > > > >> Hi David, > >> > >> I think there are some groups doing pretty smart decision support and > >> doing it pretty well. Certainly the literature on CPOE shows the > >> better implementations of that are making a difference. > >> > >> Medical Object has some really fantastic standardized stuff in the > >> Cancer Domain also. > > > > That's good to hear. I wasn't aware how far MO had come since I last > > suggested to Andrew that he should be a player in the EHR domain > > (since he understood the comms area). > > > > However, like Argus eprescribing and JJ's ICP initiative, the limiting > > factor is the closed source of the EHR. It basically shuts off DS > > experimentation from those who are willing to dabble. > > > > > >> Don't be quite so despondent - there are islands of hope out there! > > > > Bored more than despondent, David. There are lots of fascinating > > things happening in the world and the gross inefficiencies of the > > medical IT industry are a mere triviality. > > > > Do you play golf? > > > > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gpcg_talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk >
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