RE: Database design.

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 I know why it's $40Billion (assuming GBPs to boot!)

  the UK is taking lessons from the US.  They only really need, lets be generous here, $2Billion GBPs for the project.  
BUT, there is some super secret covert operation where lots of cash is needed.....

   The secret is out now!  :-)


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Drsolly
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 3:24 PM
To: Brian Loe
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Database design.

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

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

I don't know. 
 
> 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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