Re: Help finding natural keys

"Alan Gutierrez" <ajglist_at_izzy.net> wrote in message news:JlXV9.90966$t06.4328375_at_news2.east.cox.net...
> Bernard Peek wrote:
>
> > In message <gaWV9.90626$t06.4312699_at_news2.east.cox.net>, Alan Gutierrez
> > <ajglist_at_izzy.net> writes
> >>Bernard Peek wrote:
> >>
> >>> In message <nfMV9.89095$t06.4191316_at_news2.east.cox.net>, Alan
Gutierrez
> >>> <ajglist_at_izzy.net> writes
> >>

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>
> The organizations are small, and even in our large organizations the
charting
> is done by small facilities. This is charting, not billing. Patient
numbers
> are not in use here. A good thing. I'd say that a doctor that referred to
me
> as Q123.456 has got to work on her bed-side mannor.
>

From a patient perspective I can agree here, but from a developer perspecitve This is very limiting.

People have to uderstand that thier data is stored in computers, and to computers, numbers are easy.

Just because the patient has a number is no reason for a small company to not interact with them via thier name anyway. Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 14:04:44 CST