On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:22, Richard Schilling wrote: > In terms of gettind my patient data around, it might also be useful to > consider how the patient's own IT infrastructure changes the dynamic. > A patient can currently carry their lifetime medical record in their > wallet, or at least have the computing resources set up at home to > provide the functionality needed by the patient's doctors - where ever > the doc is in the world.
This would be useful for traveling patients if it takes a minute or two to dump their EHR on to a CD in XHTML. Do this maybe once or twice a year? > If we make some basic, realistic assumptions about how much computing > power the patient brings to the party, I think we can go a long way to > solving interoperability problems. Not real certain where you are going with this but I believe the basics you can assume in industrialized countries is 56k internet connecton and a modern browser. If you are looking to have the ability to run a custom client on a patient's home PC I think you have an up hill climb. --Tim
