> number of suitable database products - perhaps with vendors as partners
and
> the openSource community looking at Postges and mySQL.
mySQL is blindingly fast for read only databases but not really suitable for
EHR, as you neither can guarantee nor control data integrity. Even the most
basic security & control features are lacking, and most of them will never
be implemented due to the performance orientation of mySQL.
It can be done with Postgres, although I think that Interbase (they went
open source recently) is even more suitable for that purpose (better
performance, more mature system). Although we try to use both (PostgreSQL
and Interbase) in our GNUMed project, at the moment we focus more on the
more mature Interbase 6.0 until the release of PostgreSQL 7.1
Anyway, the GNUMed team is very interested in using the GEHR kernel, and we
would need all help we can get in mapping GEHR to our database kernel. You
can contact me by private email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to arrange
cooperation.
The only concern we still have is performance.
> I do see that binding the kernel to current DBs is required - even for
> testing. So the question is - can we get some energy together to test the
> kernel with MUMPS, Oracle....
Oracle would certainly be a good choice (if open source), MUMPS has to many
drawbacks in my opinion (was an excellent choice 10 years ago).
The choice of open sourcing everything is not a religious one (as you seem
to think) but based on real world concerns. I think on the long run any
medical software not beeing open sourced will be unthinkable. See
http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/955806388/index_html (Closed
Medical Software Poses Unacceptable Risk)
Horst
