Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: why things take so long.

[Richard Terry]

Decision support need not take long at all.

Once again it is a function of your database design and what type of decision 
support you are trying to achieve.

Malcolm Ireland and I did much mucking around with decision support 
integration into my program many years ago.



Much of the decision support which will have a major impact on your practice 
is the big picture stuff - such as drug interactions, or provision of 
information to aid the clinician in decision support, or antibiotic 
guidelines, drug/disease interactions or simple age/sex related matters 

By the time gnuMed got up to any sort of sophisticated decision support - if 
it ever does, I suspect we will be running a Pentium20 rather than a Pentium 
2 etc.

Regards

Richard

On Sun, 22 May 2005 08:00 pm, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 11:30:50PM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:
> > I tried a little exercise in python using a project task used in an
> > algorithm course, the puzzle-8 game. See how long the computer takes to
> > find a zero moved just 2 squares
> > away in the wrong direction ! ? ( there are better algorithms for this,
> > but this was the simplest).
> > Hope decision support isn't this inefficient !
>
> I fear it is.
>
> Karsten