In article <[log in to unmask]>, Adrian
Midgley <[log in to unmask]> writes
>The cards had insufficient memory, so there was not a lot on them.
In 2 years time that will be sorted - it will take that time to grow the
infrastructure.
>The staff in Casualty where I was at the time took pains to switch off
>the reader - a networked 286 with terminals - as often and quickly as
>possible,
Not if there were no other way to deal with it.
>and the way of dealing with a card was to heave a big sigh
>and then print it out...
Because they could probably. Anyway a 286 running DOS was not exactly an
intuitive interface.
>
>I think we are better off to have a system of each medical record
>repository acting as a server to return defined subsets of a patient's
>record held on it when requested by a properly authenticated client,
>over the fast network.
Agreed re: the central server but only as a repository rather than a
feeder otherwise one good hack and boom!
Still can't see any real opposition to the system as a model.
Regards
George
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