Offcourse. All the nice things you mention won't work as long as all systems use other names for the things they store.
We need a generic way of storing (and sending) information, which is the same across all systems.
Gerard
At 14:29 +0200 23-10-1998, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 09:59 on 23/10/98
>about "RE: assimilating guidelines":
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>The diatribe is now added to the Devon Tree Preservation Society
>website at
>http://www.swis.net/health/mir/midgley/dtps01.htm
> --> guidelines
>
>>PRODIGY is >also based on existing gp systems
>>rather than the systems of the future such as XML but the >information
>could
>>feasibly be used by any system and is used on over five different
>platforms
>>>now. For more information see www.schin.ncl.ac.uk/prodigy/
>
>We need (if it is not already available) a syntax or means of
>describing a guideline that renders it easy to convert into the
>proprietary tools used by EMIS; Meditel; Torex and some other system
>suppliers with varying degrees of success.
>
>This should be written so that it can be displayed in a web browser,
>or perhaps a word processor, and it should have an editing tool to
>allow production of generic guidelines.
>
>Arden syntax and medical logic module stuff is promising, but seems
>not quite to do it yet..
>
>One could imagine a web browser with a Java applet being capable of
>the task.
>
>
>>The production of paper guidelinesis as indefensible a waste of NHS
>>resources as prescribing antibiotics for colds where there are known
>>to be no pathogens in the nasopharynx, and reading the things in
>>surgery time is worse.
>>
>>>I must say I totally agree about Paper guidelines;-)
>>
>>Rob
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