Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: sourceforge ldap

[Jim Busser]

On May 19, 2004, at 7:50 PM, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 11:50, Ian Haywood wrote:
> > I am now keen to switch this to LDAP, becuase of the advantages 
> > outlined,
> > and it also allows us to use existing LDAP editors, instead of having 
> > to
> > write our own contatcs editor (but of course we *can*, in the 
> > fullness of
> > time)
>
> I am keen on LDAP too. Drawbacks are...
> ... but the advantages are huge...
>
> I remember we had discussed this before. I would now vote to implement 
> the
> gnumed demographic service based on LDAP. All we would need to do is 
> agree on
> a standard way to tag a unique gnumed person identifier onto every LDAP
> entry.
> Horst

I had asked about the consequences of the LDAP being down, or else 
having dropped from its registry a practitioner to whom the patient had 
in the past been referred. It would be helpful to maintain locally 
cached (stored in gnumed?) data so that when there is next a need to 
contact that individual, and LDAP is down, it will still likely be 
possible to do it from the local cache. Karsten made suggestions how 
this might be achieved.

I wonder if there is agreement that the proposed functionality should 
be incorporated, These were the postings:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2004-03/msg00170.html
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2004-03/msg00178.html

I also wonder, in the case where a doctor's credentials are required to 
access some external resource like an LDAP, how that will be handled. I 
imagine that when a credentialed doctor is the individual logged into 
gnumed, their credential(s) could be passed through automatically but I 
am less sure how secretarial access would be managed. Would they need 
to be authorized as the proxy for whichever doctor it is whose patient 
is the basis for the access to the LDAP (impractical)? Also what about 
cron or other automated or batch functions - would it be an arbitrary 
selection from among the credentialed doctors that achieves the access?