Well, I think Andrew and his brother did a good job. Rattling good read
throughout.
It is rather the house journal for GP-UK, isn't it. I suppose those who are
repelled by the volume and uneditedness of this can use it as the
compilation, selected best of...
Just as a matter of curiosity, not wanting to start up a network OS war here
even if I do like my Netware, is there actually a WAN as large as the NHS
will be, running on Windows NT networking?
Yet?
Ewan, the ITS protocol editor looks quite like the SOPHIE visual editor,
which might reflect you licencing it to them, or be a convergence toward
what Lewis Mumford was said to have described[1] as a type object. If the
latter then we can anticipate a lot of wheel reinvention by the other
companies instead of innovative toil on our behalf.
How do the various companies feel about publishing the scripting languages
for SOPHIE, EMIS Protocol, Torex ISIS, ITS SAFE Protocols and any other
scripting tools around for GP systems with more than an handful of users,
and the import/export rules for their editors.[2]
It should be a fairly small task to write a filter to convert from one
format to all the rest - or from a generic format, XML like, to all - and
then we could all buy the neatest editors and concentrate on the content.
The set should include a copy of Oxford Clinical Mentor, Dermis and a
genericised version of the Torex widget for printing the notes encounter by
encounter onto FP7 cards for those blessed with dinosaurian partners.
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Adrian Midgley GP, Exeter
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[1] admittedly in the context of a spade, bicycle or paperclip - but you see
what I mean.
[2] put it in RFA 5 - "shall conform to a published syntax for scripting".
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