Re: Database design.

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Drsolly wrote:
> Suppose you were asked to design a database to store the medical records 
> of everyone in the UK (about 60 million people), with adequate security, 
> and giving access to those medical staff who need access to those records.
>
> As a first stab, what would you guess would be the cost of such a thing, 
> and what (roughly, in one paragraph) would be your design?

Is that how you bid your projects? :)

> I ask, because a project like this is underway in the UK, expected to cost
> some $40 billion, and I've just written to my MP suggesting that a
> *massively* lower figure would be more appropriate (including my
> one-paragraph design), and asking her to raise this as a Parliamentary
> Question.

I'll do it for a billion.  But that doesn't include importing/converting 
existing records, training people, providing network links, replacing 
all the equipment at the hospital ends, liability insurance, or 
operating and maintaining it.

                                        BB
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