Op dinsdag 26 april 2005 07:37, schreef Gerard Freriks: > We must get used to the notion that patients not always have to provide > their real names. > And that in order to provide healthcare we need to know the real > (administrative) identity.
When you build a system that is only usable when you have a working Internet-connection, in my humble opinion, this is a bad system. There are many situations where you don't have good networks, think of war, tsunamies, big disasters, maybe you want to register people for the healthcare they get, but if a stupid application refuses to accept a patient, because the OID cannot be resolved (when you say mandatory to a programmer, he will make it mandatory), tha application will be useless. But this example is beyond the scope of my problems (for now). Bert > > Gerard > > -- <private> -- > Gerard Freriks, arts > Huigsloterdijk 378 > 2158 LR Buitenkaag > The Netherlands > > +31 252 544896 > +31 654 792800 > > On 17 Mar 2005, at 13:50, Grahame Grieve wrote: > > At 11:29 PM 17/03/2005, you wrote: > >> > Richard is often abbreviated to Dick in English usage. > >> > No idea what the origin is - lost in the mists of time. > >> > > >> > So, if you get > >> > initial = D > >> > given = Richard > >> > > >> > you don't know that the D is an abbreviation for Richard. > >> > And if you do know that it is, there's no way to say so > >> > >> Well, is there a *need* to say so ? What's fundamentally > >> wrong with just storing the D as a second first name along > >> with Richard ? I probably am too much of a pragmatist. > > > > hi Karsten > > > > depends which hat I'm wearing. If I'm programming, then > > I probably won't care - delegate the problem to the user. > > > > If I'm wearing my standards hat, or writing a reference > > demographics server, then I would care > > > > Grahame -- Met vriendelijke groet Bert Verhees ROSA Software - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
