Thurman -- That is an interesting idea. Another is to use live CDs to leverage locally available PCs. Below is something I posted last week on the vista-responders mailing list.
-- Bhaskar ---------------------------------------------------- OpenVistA Crisis Response Tool [OpenVistA CRT] The OpenVistA Crisis Response Tool is a specially configured version of VistA that can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world. It requires only universally available, generic, PC hardware (a minimum of 100MHz CPU, 500MHz preferred; 128MB RAM, 512MB preferred; 1GB disk or USB flash/hard drive; 10GB preferred). The tool is located on high bandwidth servers at multiple locations throughout the world [like Source Forge], and is freely downloadable and redistributable. A CD-ROM and USB flash drive or USB hard drive are light enough, small enough and inexpensive enough, that they can also be packed as part of emergency responders' tool kits [presumably emergency responders have pre-packaged kits ready to fly out at a moment's notice]. When deployed in a crisis situation, the primary purposes include: 1. Registering victims. 2. Managing relief supply inventories. 3. Electronic health records for urgent and routine primary care provided to victims. [There are probably other needs I have overlooked.] Additionally, since refugee populations are mobile, there will be means for the interchange of information between different instances of OpenVistA CRT, both online [e.g., HL7 messages] or offline [e.g., from the backup copy of the database of an invocation, or from a flat file export]. [Note that this implies a need to merge records from different invocations, and that the same patient may have different ids on different invocations.] ---------------------------------------------------- On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 23:47 -0500, Thurman Pedigo wrote: > http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ > > http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/ > > > > Negroponte proposed this product for education. With VistA loaded, > think how it could work in disaster health systems. I can’t help > wondering what it would be like to be associated with a system that > housed these three - Negroponte, Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker. > > > > thurman > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
