On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 17:27, Tim Churches wrote:

> Alas, Dave is correct. ZODB is fine but its scalability is not that
...
>  or at least in the middleware. Dave will
> argue that that is what the OMG HDTF corbaMED RAD (resource access
> decision) service specification is for - and he is right:

100% agreement there.


> Yup. Individual clinic systems should not be physically located in
> individual clinics - they should be hosted in large data centres
> designed to run 24x365. But that doesn't mean that the data stored in
> the hosted individual clinic systems can't be under the sole control of
> those individual clinics.

I'm interested in the implementation plan for this concept.
Especially when related to your other post about privacy concerns and
database administrators. 

Doesn't consolidating multiple clinical systems in one location put more
records at risk of theft at one time?  

This is akin to the ASP model which increases the risk that my physician
can't get to my record due to some service interruption outside of my
geographical area.  If the power is out in my local clinic then getting
to my record isn't the only problem we have.  If a backhoe cuts a fiber
100 miles away it'll be darn frustrating.  

Later,
Tim

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