Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-02 Thread wren ng thornton
Tom Hawkins wrote: At the core, the fundamental problem is not that complicated. It's just storing and retrieving a person's various health events: checkups, prescriptions, procedures, test results, etc. The main technical challenges are database distribution and patient security. Both are fun

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-02 Thread Tom Hawkins
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Antoine Latteraslat...@gmail.com wrote: A good place to start is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL7 , which is a not-for-profit organization which tries to define interfacing standards between medical devices and medical records providers.  I haven't worked much

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-02 Thread S. Doaitse Swierstra
The Dutch government has been trying to get something like this for years; parliament is asking every new minister why the promised heaven has not yet arrived, only to hear that more consultants are needed. I have been to hearings of our parliament and I can tell you such events are

[Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-01 Thread Tom Hawkins
My family and I are moving in the coming months. My wife will be attending a new school in the fall. Among the many hassles of moving are locating and transferring medical records to new doctors and clinics. During our time in Minnesota, we've visited several clinics and hospitals, so our

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible Haskell Project

2009-06-01 Thread Antoine Latter
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Tom Hawkins tomahawk...@gmail.com wrote: My family and I are moving in the coming months.  My wife will be attending a new school in the fall.  Among the many hassles of moving are locating and transferring medical records to new doctors and clinics.  During