> 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 -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
