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Re: Database design.
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 23:13:42 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Blue Boar wrote:
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? :)
No, but it's how I decide how much effort I should put into bidding for a contract.
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
A few simple perl scripts.
, training people,
Not needed if you design it right
providing network links,
I'd use the internet. So, links already in place.
replacing all the equipment at the hospital ends,
They use PCs already, no need to change.
liability insurance, or
You would already have that.
operating and maintaining it.
Clent does all that. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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