Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed FAQs

[Karsten Hilbert]

>  What is GNUMed?
> 
> GNUMed is the name for both a GNU Open Source Project and its intended 
> outcome, a suite of software (and a community) to support medical 
> practice, using tried-and-true technology. It will start out with 
> record-keeping, but is eventually supposed to cover all aspects of 
> medical practice, and is supposed to interface well with 3rd-party 
> software. For the more technical, it tries to do things "cleanly", but 
> takes a pragmatic rather than purist approach. Currently, data is 
> accessed via business objects implemented in Python directly accessing 
> the pgSQL RDBMS, but it is planned to access much of the data via 
PostgreSQL

> business objects accessing XML-RPC servers (your middleware, if you 
> will) which, in turn, will access the data stores.
will access various types of data stores such as RDBMS' or
LDAP.

Karsten
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