Re: [Gnumed-devel] document control

[Karsten Hilbert]

> On the one extreme, there are labs whose support of an EMR is so 
> primitive that they really only send an ASCII file which, if it were 
> properly formatted, may be able to be printed to look similar to 
> their traditional  paper report.

> On the other extreme there are labs that do not "send" or "push" 
> "documents", they only make their results database available to be 
> queried ("pulled") by the fetcher/importer software.

Precisely. The difference you elicit here is why there are
documents tables and measurements tables. I probably don't
need to mention that I am not likely to let go of either
one ;-)

Karsten
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