Reports on this work have been submitted to international conferences and journals of medical informatics. Any public domain software, of general applicability to health care institutions, resulting for this project will be made available under a CRS4 ftp site. Release will be subject to agreement with the Hospital. An experimental, open source, XML server of multimedia electronic patient records - backward compatable with Netscape 3.0 and MSIE 4.0 or higher. Our vision of the future of this technology predicts a humanization of the system available to health professionals.
Mobility is a key factor preventing the uptake of a desktop PC based health information system.
The resultant small portable light-weight devices should thus have the potential to finally eradicate the routine replication of records on paper.