On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 06:48 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> This is very OT. If list readers can point me in the right direction, to
> other mailing lists, or web sites for recommended databases, that will
> be much appreciated!
>
> My wife's doctor wants to move records, for approximately 6000 patients
> (over a 12 year period), from paper (18th century) to a database (20th
> century). The data entry will be a PITA, for his secretaries, regardless
> of what software he goes with. I did some reading about MySQL, and I
> also did some googling for Linux+database and there are many other
> databases out there. One requirement is that one field be variable
> length (patient history: surgeries, treatments, etc.), which I suspect
> might vary from 200 words to 3000 words. That field size needs to be
> very flexible. If there are "front ends" that will make it easier for
> his secretaries to input patient records to the database and access it,
> that will be a "plus". It would also be a plus, but, it's not mandatory,
> if they can do this in Spanish. It's a small office (2 surgeons, nurses
> and secretaries) so I suspect there might be 4 to 6 workstations
> connected to the database server, maximum. I would like to help him get
> the best possible solution. Something with a large user base, excellent
> documentation and an active ML, like CentOS, is the goal. Thanks much!
> Lanny
>
You might want to take a look at Vista available at sourceforge and
other web locations. It's a complete electronic medical record system
that is scalable from hospital type applications down to a doctors'
office. Server/database can run on Linux, workstations must run
windows, IIRC. Free software developed years ago by Veterans
Administration and still actively maintained.
Good luck,
B.J.
Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty, Linux 2.6.20-16-generic unknown 08:19:13 up 1:15, 1
user, load average: 0.04, 0.08, 0.08
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