[Gnumed-devel] International Standards

[Daniel Minahim]

I've noticed some disagreement between .au and .de doctors, on how each had 
different needs and etc... 

Well, here is the opinion of a .br doctor:

1) Of course we've got to keep in mind the local requirements (eg. German EMR 
file, maybe the brazilian XML DTD for health records). But those should be 
peripheral projects.

2) Although an international standard for EMR isn't readily available, that's 
not really an excuse! We can come up with one top level standard by comparing 
whatever is common between the local EMR standards. We have a chance of 
creating a 'de facto' standard or working with IMIA or WHO. The later should 
be interested in standard that came from a international cooperation group.

Daniel