McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System

Yanni Chiu yanni-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 14 03:57:48 UTC 2009


Jamon Camisso wrote:
> D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> For business-critical work like OSCAR, using MySQL is probably a
>> serious mistake.
> 
> If it's good enough for Yahoo! and Wikipedia, it's probably good enough 
> for the rest of us.

If Oscar is just a scheduling, billing and visit tracking app, then it's 
probably not a big deal. If it were to be storing patient history and 
drug treatment regimen, then I'd be worried that it's MySQL instead of 
PostgreSQL.

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Yanni
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