In message <[log in to unmask]> Rob Tweed writes:
>On Wed, 09 Oct 1996 09:49:15 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>> What I would need to be able to do is submit a request to the
>>> directory service with some reasonably uniquely identifying attribute
>>> of my patient (New NHS Number ?), and receive back a list of the
>>> locations where record fragments for that individual are stored
>>
>Strikes me, therefore, the technology is here to support this kind of
>approach, and is in line with your overall thinking, not at odds
>unless there's something I'm missing or you have a better underlying
>technical approach/solution/model to suggest..... ?
>
The Americans have been wrestling with this problem for some time, as
you might expect given their highly fragmented healthcare system.
The health IT industry has set up an alliance to develop what they
call a 'virtual master patient index' using distributed CORBA
techniques (yes folks it's OAT - obscure acronym time).
There is a quite detailed progress summary at
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/cpr/mpi/ and thereabouts.
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Pete Mitchell, Editor, e-Med News - an international
newsletter on electronic data in medical applications
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