From: John S. Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Adrian Midgley wrote:
>>
>> One of our UK developers lectured last year on the topic of putting
>> all functions through the browser, and having seen some of his
stuff I
>> am less unconvinced than I was...
>
>Does this mean that you can see an entirely browser-based EMR down
the
>line?
Yes.
www.agorahealth.co.uk/
Nice people.
I find the interface a little too pretty, but when they got the
alt-key selectiosn working in the browser I decided this can be done.
I am still inclined to think that it may be done _better_ in other
ways, or with combinations of special to purpose clients with the
generic web browser component, but there is a proof of possibility in
my view.
>> It is easier to teach people to write medical logic modules in an
easy
>> language than a hard one
>That seems (C-eems ?) to me to be a slightly extreme statement (I
know,
>pot calling the kettle black and all that). If doctors can slog
through
>organic chemistry in college, a subject that they will never, ever
see
>hide nor hair of again in their lives (quickly, how do you synthesize
>benzene?), certainly they can learn C and even manage a little data
>along the way.
I find my A level organic chemistry useful in understanding
differences between drugs actually.
Not that I need to actually make them.
If you can find a group of experienced and expert cat herders, then we
might put together a conversion course, but I still don't think
they'll get many GPs to learn how to program formally.
However, given some Python code that does something like something
that they actually _want_ there are plenty who'll hack at it.
C - maybe not. Bigger first step.
Mind you, I started Fortran on punched cards <FX: orchestra, pithead,
cries of "when I were ' Lad we'd a bin grateful for a punched card>
Did I mention I met the guy who was paid to turn the handle on
Babbage's machine? Curator at the Science Museum as it happens and he
could reasonably claim that.
