Disasters or not. This is not what I ment. In real life we buy a loaf of bread without a full identication. In real life I get healthcare without the need for the care providers to know my name. And when I pay in cash they don't need my bank account number.
The only need a unique identifier (set of) to find records filed previously. Any unique thing will work as well. A real name, address, data of birth, or my bankaccount, the date of my mothers birthday, a token, a phoney name, or an other unique thing like a series of scars on my skin, a photograph, my fingerprint, etc, etc Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, arts Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands +31 252 544896 +31 654 792800 On 26 Apr 2005, at 09:56, Bert Verhees wrote: > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2855 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050427/e904c0ac/attachment.bin>
