> For example, in UK general practice, it's probably safer to have your data
> in EMIS (the market leader) than GPCare (a small handrolled academic
> solution in VisualBasic). It's going to be worth someone's while to write
> export filters for EMIS (~1000 practices); it's less certain that will
> happen for GPCare (~10 practices).

> (I'm not sure that:
>> the networked microfilm machine which
>> photographs the data unto the microfilm.
> [Huh? As bar codes? Dots and dashes? 1s and 0s? ASCII?]
> falls in to this category.)

To my understanding it doesn't have to. The access technology
is self-evident (project light through the "slides" onto a
wall). So is the file format: brain-processed visible images.
The only possible obstacle might be the content encoding:
English (or any other contemporary language) in their
respective characters. If all English speakers would cease to
exist the data might become incomprehensible, sure.

Regards,
Karsten Hilbert
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