Re: [Gnumed-devel] call for action

[Ian Haywood]

Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> I strongly disagree with you here. It is no longer true that you cannot do 
> anything with GNUmed. This tale has been told so long that some people will 
> believe it until there will be version 0.1 which does something. GNUmed is 
> nowhere complete featurewise but it is in use in the practive of my parents 
> as a document archive. It is reasonably complete to work as a lab module 
> replacement in my parent's practice as well. 
You are still reliant on Turbomed to get demographic data, so long as this is
the case, gnumed is not really an EHR, but operating as an extension to 
Turbomed.

If your call to users was to existing users of turbomed, with instructions on 
how you have
achieved intregation (which would be fascinating reading, although purely 
academic, for most of us)
that's fine,

But it's not, it's to the rest of us struggling with standalone gnumed, and 
this functionality
is very limited. No module works in a way that I would be happy to demonstrate 
to an end-user.
(with the possible exception of the docs viewer, does that work standalone?
Can you post some wiki docs on how to enter new documents?)

> So please do not state GNUmed does nothing and user's can't anything to get us 
> there. We are there already. It depends on what you expect from it !!!
I expect it to, without proprietary software:
        - create, delete, edit demographics
        - enter and view simple free text narratives
        - create, edit, view a past history list
        - upload and view documents
Anything less, even as 0.1, will just get us laughed at.

> See comment below.
>
> > To be honest, I do, unless it is made clear this is only a useful excerise
> > for people who want to develop gnumed or make packages.
>
> Yes and no. I am doing that for a reason. I know it is very complex but until 
> someone tells me what the complexity is I won't know. Maybe you do. The point 
> is I want to know where is the first point people fail. 
My point is the way end-users will install gnumed will be very different
(hopefully a lot simpler) than the current install, it's this, simpler,
process that we want tested and debugged, learning how to install from source,
for non-coders, is just a waste of their time.


Ian

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