knowing/Medmon — comment on commit 921797710ec9bf7fca31ea8bccbf3d36daa3ead5
File: de.lmu.ifi.dbs.medmon.medic.core/src/de/lmu/ifi/dbs/medmon/medic/core/service/IPatientService.java line 22
By muuki88:

Output and Inputstream should remain. Path is always bound to a file in the filesystem.
A IO-Stream is more generic, e.g. if you want to load from a URL or a Bundle-Ressource.