Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Document for introducing GnuMed (regarding India's project opportunity)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:46:45AM +1100, Tim Churches wrote:

> Yes. The target "market" of GNUmed is general prcatices and small
> clinics, I thought. They will not be running multiple database servers.
> If they do want to source data from other sources, it will not be by
> connection to an SQL database, it will be via a Web service (most likely
>  SOAP in the real world, or HL7 v2.x wrapped in ebXML),
A GNUmed service doesn't have to be an SQL database.

> the results would be stored or at least cached in the practice's local
> database. So what is the point of distributed *database* capability.
> Certainly the ability to source data from distributed services is
> important, but not from distributed SQL databases.
We can reduce that coupling when we start actually using
services. The point is that some countries apparently actually
offer a demographics server.

Karsten
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