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Re: [Gnumed-devel] question about gnumed and database
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J Busser |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] question about gnumed and database |
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Sun, 1 May 2005 14:17:44 -0700 |
Hi Omar,
Others more-technical will comment if my response needs correction
but here is what I think:
At 3:57 AM +1000 5/1/05, Omar Mouline wrote:
First, can gnuMed or some other open source database be adapted for
use in the vascular lab? The present database is fairly simple
with patient demographics, risk factors, indications, referring
physician, procedure, post-op write-up, and other drop-list
parameters. It is old and does not provide any statistical info
(i.e. how many patients under 65 had a stroke this month and how
many of those were stented).
Any of the database systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and any of the
medical softwares built on top of them (GNUmed, others) COULD be
extended to do this. You would have to assemble people with enough
interest and expertise for your use case to extend the database
"backend" to hold the additional data, and also to build or extend a
graphical user interface (GUI) client frontend so that this data
could be input and managed. You would also need someone to develop
any reports you would like generated.
Keep in mind that your use case might be so specific as to fall
outside what the project would want to take on. Stated differently,
the project may not see fit to make the software work to suit your
special needs, in which case you would need people to modify a local
installation of GNUmed and/or build some pieces as add-ons. Whether
this could be done "cleanly", so that it would not break each time
there was a new GNUmed update, would have to be worked out with the
project's main developers.
Second, do you think it's feasible to run Fedora or some other form
of Linux on the Vasc Lab computer
sure but
and network them seamlessly with the hospital's Windows server
(I'll have to double check that but the ward terminals are running
win2000).
the barriers here may have more to do with institutional policies
about what hospital IT
- chooses as server and network software
- will or will not permit to be run on its machines (like those in
the vascular lab)
- will or will not permit to connect to its server