This is copied from the MIT MedWeb site. Hopefully, one day the UK
will wake up!!
"The Multi-Institutional Demonstration Database
This demonstration is still under construction, but will be
available soon. It provides uniform access to heterogeneous legacy
databases. We have databases of sample anonymized patient records
from three institutions (Children's Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital,
and Massachusetts General Hospital, all members of the Boston EMR
Collaborative). There is an institutional server for each database,
that converts the information in the database into a ``common medical
record'' encoded in the HL7 message format. The web server queries
each of the institutional servers, pieces together an "overall"
patient record, and converts the resulting information into html."
Al Hakim
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Ahmad Risk MB BCh
tel: +44 1737 240022 fax: +44 1737 244660
http://www.cybermedic.org/
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