On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:01, Andrew Ho wrote: > � I make use of web-based email services and they work quite nicely. > Perhaps that could work well in Australia too?
If we only had reasonable access to broandband internet, yes. Have you ever tried to cope wth a large amount of email via IMAP or, worse - webmail - via a dialup connection? Forget it. > � Each physician (using web-browser or their EMR) can log-onto a web-site > (via https) to retrieve messages meant for them and/or their EMR (via > attached HL7 messages). �There can be more than one such web-sites - in Most if not all GPs work in private practice. We cannot afford to wait half a minute until browser based technology builds up a page of information every time we want to access it. But this is how it works with our pathetic connectivity. According to recent ITU reports Austraia has pretty much hit the rock bottom among OECD countries in terms of broadband Internet accessibility and affordability. > � How is Argus better than this? Argus does a lot more - it imports/exports data through well defined interfaces into our uncooperative EHR packages. It encodes/decodes HL7 messages. It is capable of nicely displaying HL7 messages, should the EHR system not be able to do so. Horst -- "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage
