Re: DNS primer

[Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

> > Or were you thinking that every doctor or hospital department I'd ever
> > visited would hang onto its fragment of my medical record on a local
> > server, and these would somehow get patched together into a coherent and
> > holistic view by some master-index?
On Monday 08 November 2004 19:41, Dave Howe wrote:
> why not? unless you need all records to be centralized for some other
> reason, it is as viable an approach as the master-bunker one, allows
> local authorities to retain access locally (which, lets face facts here,
> is where it will be of benefit to the patient) if the network as a whole
> faces disruption, and allows neighbouring authorities to arrange their
> own replication and disaster recovery by interdependency contracts
> rather than (almost certainly) funding a centralized solution with no
> idea of how they are supposed to access it if it suddenly pings out one
> january morning....

I like that also.
We have, as it happens, two open source master patient indexes available.  One 
form Los Alamos (LANL) and one from the EU PICNIC project.


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