Re: Database design.

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

Well tell me this, where are the requirements, or specs, for the
proposed system your country is planning?

As for how much information you keep, I wouldn't know. I do know that
if I requested all of my health records from all of my doctors I'd
probably get back the x-rays of me in my mum... (just kidding, she'd
have to request those of course).


On 6/6/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:

> We don't store all that data. I had a leg x-ray several years ago, and I
> really don't think that the record of it was kept. Nor was there any
> reason to - the situation they were checking up for (blood clot), wasn't
> there. I also had a foot x-ray about 30 years ago. Again, the condition
> they were checking for (fallen arch) wasn't there. I cannot believe that
> this got filed.
>
> The problem with spending humungous amounts of money on a platinum-plated
> IT system such as you suggest, is that you don't have that money for
> spending on nurses and hospitals. My feeling is that your design is
> overkill, and will wind up losing more lives than it saves, because the
> money that could be spent on medicine, would be spent on programmers and
> computer systems. Just the storage you're suggesting, one terabyte per
> person, at $500 for a terabyte storage, would cost 30 billion dollars.
>
> Certainly I can see that from the point of view of a vested interest in
> the medical IT profession, someone would think that this money is well
> spent. But I think that more lives are saved by medical attention,
> together with a much simpler (and cheaper) computer system.
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