I produce a medical clinical decision CD-ROM for emergency depts and family
physicians. The interface has lot's of navigational buttons, full hot text
capability and 1000s of medical graphics. It started life in hypercard and
I made it available free to medical students over WWW using a modified
version of Livecard which delivered a web page "screen scrape" of my
program over the web every time a user went to a new card. This had the
enormous advantage of retaining all the interactive functionality of the
Cd-ROM version and I had to do little more than load updates of my stack
onto the server every couple of months to keep it current. Because it
involved so little work on my part I was happy to do it for nothing and the
medical students are heavy users. A year ago I converted the CD version to
MC but, being a full time clinician, I haven't the time to build a MC
version of Livecard to deliver the new MC version on the web. The medical
students still use the the year old HC version on the web but it is rapidly
reaching its used by date. The university would like to make the new MC
version on the web available and are willing to pay a few hundred dollars.

Before the politically currect jump in, I realise that this isn't the
preferred way to deliver information over the web (slow download for
graphics, lack of access for those with visual disability etc etc.). The
fact remains that this method works exceptionally well for both me (no
extra work) and the medical students who didn't care if the download is a
little slow as long as the thing is free. I have no intention of converting
to html because the whole thing would be far to difficult to maintain
(thousands of individual text files and tens of thousands of internal
links). Would anyone be interested in quoting on writing a MC equivalent of
Livecard for my particular purpose. I cant give out the URL publicly
because of confidentiality issues surrounding the medical graphics but will
provide it to bone fide developers who guarantee not to distribute it so
that he/she can see what's involved. Please reply direct to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rob Pitt MBBS FRACP FACEM
Director Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Mater Childrens Hospital

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