Good components

[philippe Ameline]

Hi,   I think "best concepts" has been misinterpreted by some people on the list. I am french, and sometimes don't use the most proper words.   My opinion is that we all have taken the (difficult) problem of building a medical system in a personnal way.   For example, many of you are centered on hospitals (maybe because you work in) ; this is not my case. Some of you think that a web browser is the good interface ; I work on Artificial Intelligence-able workstations. I believe in highly structured patient records ; some of you probably think it's an utopy.   However, we all have developped good components that could certainly be re-used by someone else, even if he has different paradigms   Thomas Beale and I both used the Lego brick comparison when describing our concept ; in the same way, there is lots of ordinary bricks in my system, but I also have smart bricks I can offer, and I know I miss some bricks you probably have.   Andrew's interactive repository of projects is a good starting point (I must confess the message with its URL is in my office, and since I didn't understand how it works in 30 seconds, and then telephon rang...). Could we work on it ? I am ready to start.   As a summary, I think that if we have to work on paradigms we probably must meet each others (medical open source congress - sponsored by Minoru ;o) ) - but we can already share components (at least describe our best components), and that is the first step to a genuine collaboration - and more if affinity.   Philippe AMELINE Odyss�e project www.nautilus-info.com