Re: FreeDiams in separate medical data task?
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:19:08AM +0200, Andreas (Debian) wrote:
> as you can see, FreeDiams is now listed as "In new queue":
Great.
> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/data
>
> The fact that it serves perfectly as plugin into GNUmed and other
> practice management software let me think that it should also be listed
> in the med-practice task
+1
> (there is no problem in using packages in more
> than one task - we have another example with aeskulap).
I didn't know that.
> However, I wonder what you think about the medical data task itself?
I think FreeDIAMS doesn't belong there. It provides a lot of
functionality beyond just data.
> Would you consider this task as useful? Besides FreeDiams we are only
> refering to Drugref.org which seems to be a basically dead project. We
> want to provide a task categorisation which has practical use and
> relevance but I have to trust medical experts (that's why I'm actually
> mentioning the medical doctors in the To field) whether this is really
> the case with the current med-data task.
Healthcare *science* will have useful applications for the
medical-data task.
> The only pro for FreeDiams in a separate task would be if the question:
> "Does it makes sense to use FreeDiams *outside* a medical practice?"
One could construe use cases but they aren't truly relevant.
> would be answered with yes. So there might actually people who are
> just working with the data somehow. If this is not really a practical
> case I'd consider droping the med-data task.
Fine with me.
Karsten
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