McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System

[Dave Cramer]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Dave Cramer <davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> > So how many different java web technologies are in there ? Last time I
> > checked there was straight JSP, struts, gwt, assorted javascript
> libraries.
> > It is using mysql. Is it using any kind of database OR mapping, or just
> SQL
> > all over the place ? Is there any relational integrity ?
>
> I see in the source code that there are "init scripts" for Oracle and
> PostgreSQL as well...  This may bode either well or ill...
>
> I was never able to get it all running on pg.


> The "ill" part is that when you build to be "totally generic," then
> you have to eschew any features that aren't available everywhere,
> which, in this case, tends to rule out relational integrity (e.g. -
> foreign keys) or having constraint validation.
>
> Actually hibernate does pretty solid job of this, but of course there is
partial hibernate support in this and then there is SQL spread liberally
throughout the views, etc.

Also it's a very big (herculean) stretch to compare this to the billion
dollar non-solution which was as I understand it to provide e-records for
everything. This is just a small office scheduling, billing and encounter(dr
jargon for visit) tracking solution.

Dave
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