Re: Database design.

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote:

> I interviewed with a company that was taking all of a Dr.'s office and
> putting it onto a DB. This was only for eye doctors (opthomologists or
> some such) and they had an average of 1 GB per client.
>
> This included billing, Forms (TONS of forms per visit here in the
> states), etc, etc.

I still don't see how an eye doctor can amass a gigabyte of data on one 
person, unless they're storing the forms by doing high-resolution jpgs of 
them, which is a pretty daft way to store data.

 
> If you guys dont have the massive amounts of paperwork like we do,
> then your DB would be a lot smaller quota per person.
>
> anyways, hope this wasnt totally useless data and relevant to the conversation.
>
> -JP

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