Jon David Patrick wrote:
I wish people would use their terminology a little more
precisely.Interpreting your interpretation I take the license to mean
they claim copyright over their Database Management System (DBMS) and the
schema design for their application - fair enough if they can show they
indeed were the first programmers to use those names and tables for that
type of data - did they build their own DBMS or are they using something
propriety like Oracle, MS SQL Server, or Sybase?
MD started on Visual Objects and PracSoft on Visual Basic / ?Access.
They were combined and ported to MS SQL about ?three years ago.
I think it wise to delineate up front what GPs want to do and what HCN
will allow.
Does the hcnreader give you access to an SQL command line prompt or do you
pass it SQL formatted statements from a program as with an ODBC driver.
The latter. Not sure about the former.
We are testing a prototype at the RPAH of an idea we have for a
"Generalised Data Analytics Language". Its aim is to allow queries to be
framed in a restricted natural language so as to to express a much wider
range of queries than possible in "simple" SQL. It will also allow for the
use of SNOMED expressions in retrievals, and contains notions of locality
and calender - an underlying technology for this function is the Text to
SNOMED converter I've talked about on the list previously, and ultimately
the system will allow for SNOMED terminology searching of text fields.
PArt of the heavy work in such a project is to have a translator that maps
a pseudo natural language query into a complex set of SQL retrievals from
the underlying application database. If this tool can be made usable on MD
then it would help the many non-SQL literate doctors to express a richer
set of analyses about their own data. This has all been applied to bolt on
to the ICU IS known as CareVue.
As I said before Jon, your work is the only one that offers me a glimmer
of hope decision support might actually work.
Do you think we get engagement from any interested parties to support
funding to get it bolted on to other systems, even if onyl for
experiemtnal purposes.
Despite the utmost importance of this work, no.
David
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