Jean, You may find the work that was done at the <http://healthcare.omg.org/>OMG HDTF worth looking at in terms of doing International Distributed Computing in the Medical environment there are several areas: 1) Person Identification Service (http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/2001-04-04) 2) Terminology Query Service (http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/2000-06-31) 3) Resource Access Decision (http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/2001-04-01) 4) Clinical Observation Access Service (http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/2001-04-06) All of which are works geared toward doing secure distributed computing for medical information.
The full catalog of specifications can be found at: http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/spec_catalog.htm Tom _______________________________________________________ Thomas C. Culpepper 2AB, Inc. tculpepper at 2ab.com www.2ab.com 205-621-7455 ext 107 OMG Member _________________________________________________________ "Solutions for Distributed Business (SM)" At 08:31 24/06/02 +0100, Jean Roberts wrote: >Whilst I cannot comment on the architecture detail, I would flag up a >need to consider the international environment around the handling of >records. We may well be subject to generic CEC Directives about how >records should be produced and the Brazilians (or in fact even the US or >somewhere even with same language bases) could have national / regional >requirements for how they must collect or present data on healthcare >delivered locally. I am not saying that there are these types of >difference at present, but like with trans-border data transmission >across 'unsafe' areas such potential external inconsistencies must be >recognised as needing to be considered. >Jean Roberts > >Phoenix Associates, 19 Church Meadow, Ipstones, Staffs, ST10 2LS UK >email : jean at hcjean.demon.co.uk http://www.hcjean.demon.co.uk >tel 07771 804472 or tel/fax+44 1538 266944 >- >If you have any questions about using this list, >please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20020625/a71e20e4/attachment.html>
