Tim Churches wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Do any of you know anything about Oacis (Open Architecture Clinical >>Information System) by DINMAR, a Sun Microsystems technology partner? > > > Do you mean OACIS in South Australia? See > http://www.health.sa.gov.au/oacisprogramme/DesktopDefault.aspx > > If so, I been to a few talks given by the people who run it. It seems to > be one of the more successful population-based clinical data warehousing > initiatives, mainly because they didn't have too much money for the > implementation and thus the entire thing by necessity is relatively > simple in its design and execution, and hence it actually works. It also > helps that South Australia has only about 1 million population, mostly > in one large population centre (Adelaide), with the rest in the southern > eastern corner of the state.
Seems that you do mean that OACIS. I was under the (false) impression that Oacis in South Australia was home-grown technology, but it seems that it is not. Or did teh South Australian govt pay for DIMAR to development of the technology but tehn allowed them to reatin copyright on it? Anyway, its not open source. Tim C
