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Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health record
If you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis with fault tolerance and good reactivity across large geographical areas. You will have t oscale to tens of thousand of simultaneous requests, if you do not provide access to patient, but only to health profesionnal. You will also have to implement a secure - really secure - access control, plus long term archiving of all record.

A rough estimation or yearly volume of data rounds the Pb, w/o medical imaging.

This taken into account gives you a hint of the price of only the test infrastructre used to validate the solution.

But it also stress that you cannot implement such a system using cocoon and postgres on linux, at least it's not so simple that a five person team can do it.

Add to that thaat you must define the content of the record, defined and validated by public and private health insurance, fospitals physician of all specialities, pharmacist, and all paramedical professions ( opticians; mid wives, Physiotherapist, labs... etc ) any this normalisation will eat up millions of $ in meetings.

neither technology nor the society is ready in the short run for a complete electronic health record management system on the wide basis. things will have to evolve bottom up and it will take years, and millions to do it.
Posted by: s_souche   Posted on: 06/05/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health record  s_souche | 06/05/08
Three things to bear in mind  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 06/05/08
Just trying to explain the cost  s_souche | 06/05/08
Agreed  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 06/05/08
RE: but maybe growing awareness of the power and value of open source  s_souche | 06/05/08
Oh great  Roger Ramjet | 06/05/08
meaning of demonstrator  s_souche | 06/05/08
Murph made a good point in response.  Anton Philidor | 06/05/08
The reason behind my All-American plan  Roger Ramjet | 06/05/08
umm.. we could discuss that sometime  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 06/05/08
My guess is...  brble | 06/05/08
depends on the contract  Erik Engbrecht | 06/06/08
A very "communism " view of software development...nt  socialism=nowhere | 06/05/08
What's common among all the failed examples...?  dominigan | 06/05/08
What's common is government process  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 06/05/08
Transparency and fairness...  Anton Philidor | 06/05/08
Agree, and add  Richard Flude | 06/05/08
RE: Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?  Linux User 147560 | 06/05/08
What did G.H.B. say.. read my lips?  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 06/05/08
...  Linux User 147560 | 06/05/08
If you want to see spectacular failure...  Dr. John | 06/05/08
add one more  reedjjjr | 06/07/08
Be real!...  mikifinaz1@... | 06/05/08
Once more outside your level of competence  tonymcs@... | 06/05/08

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