McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System

[Dave Cramer]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Yanni Chiu <yanni-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> encounters are patient history. :(

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