On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 06:45, Richard D Piper wrote: > I was specifically thinking of the distribution of an electronic > discharge summary. The current best approach seems to be using either > HESA PKI (http://www.hesa.com.au) or a FAX machine :-)
Definitely look at the Argus project at http://uob-community.ballarat.edu.au/cceh/Argus/ - as I mentioned, it is available at no cost (and is supposed to be available as open source at some stage), is well documented, a support service is being organised, and it has lots of facilities for handling structured data in HL7, PIT, HTML, RTF, CSV and other formats, interfaces to popular general practice information systems (HCN Medical Director and Medtech32 I think), and it supports distributed LDAP directories of "users" and their public keys. Oh, it even has a facility (ArgusForms) for processing user-defined data collection forms (a la OIO) and securely emailing the collected data. The only downside (apart from the lack of source code so far - but I am sure that will eventuate) is that Argus only supports the HeSA PKI at the moment. However, Andrew Shrosbee (apologies if the spelling is incorrect), the project leader, has said that they would be happy to add support for GPG/PGP given a smidgeon of addition funding. Support for GPG (and release of the Argus source code) would turn a very nifty project into a wonderful one. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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