> Nearly everything that is being done in electronic medical record keeping
> has as its common denominator with other projects a browser-esque
> interface connecting to an SQL back-end.
>>What you describe is "light client", good for data management.
>>In order to achieve knowledge management, I prefer the "workstation"
>>approach since you need fast processing of lots of datas (instead of a
>>large, but "slow" data repository, you store and process locally
>>the >>usefull datas of the current patient).
I imagine that current use and technological possibilities for EMRs
are heavily weighted toward data management solutions. Knowledge
management seems much more complex, quite heady, *and* somewhat
further in the future before we see widespread applications.
If this is true, notably that there is this lead time, couldn't that
give server and network technology time to 'catch up' to knowledge
management's computational appetite? Couldn't browser-esque
interfaces on light clients (connected to heavy iron in broadband
communities... my reve du jour) conceivably pack enough punch in 2-3
years time to justify developping for light client applications
today, even in intense environments like Philippe is describing?
DA
