Re: [Gnumed-devel] Collating basic information on GNUmed DB structure

[J Busser]

At 7:18 AM +0100 1/25/05, <address@hidden> wrote:
> I want to start out with the reasoning behind the DB structure.... 
> as from what I have seen most of the clinical information is stored 
> as freetext. The only exception is the diagnosis which can be coded 
> too.

Clinical measurements (parts of the physical examination, for example 
vital signs & potentially other measurements) plus laboratory data 
are captured and expressed in whichever system(s) have been used, for 
example a convention developed inside a gnumed site, or a national or 
international standard system.

> Please let me know if you know about any floating informaton pieces 
> about the the DB like 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnumed/gnumed/gnumed/client/doc/developer-manual/db-architecture.html 
> .

Related to the database is the plan of database "services", others 
might indicate whether, even though it is only partially implemented, 
it remains correct:
http://gnumed.net/whitepapers/serviceslist.html