Gerard,
With respect to your comment "Partial records are no problem", I would be
interested to know how the client knows where the fragments of the patient
record are located?
I can see a client could be very useful to provide a common view of the patient
record from disparate systems within a hospital environment but how,
practically, would the client know what locations to obtain information from in
a general practice scenario where information is potentially scattered across
the Web. Do you anticipate that an index of URL's would be held, or that each
organisation involved in the direct or indirect care of the patient would run
some sort of Web crawler programme to periodically update existing references
and look for new ones ?
Regards,
Mike Turner
IM&T Consultant
CSC Oxford
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