News from Stockholm
by Matthew ~ December 31st, 1969. Filed under: News.More from Stockholm County Council, and its ambitious healthcare IT system, the GVD, sometimes advanced as a success story of HL7 V3:
We chose Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base because it complies with the worldwide HL7 standard for clinical data, and because it comes from a major international company, committed to supporting, developing, and refining the product over time. When we conducted a market evaluation, Oracle also came in at the right price. – Jack Robinson, IT Manager, Stockholm County Council
In an article entitled “Missarna som knäckte GVD” (roughly: Flaws in the Cracked GVD”), Madeleine Bäck reports on the recent history of the GVD project, which continues to move from crisis to crisis:
Heavy criticism is directed towards the choice of storage system for GVD, the so-called HTB database, which was acquired from WM-Data and its partner Oracle in 2004. ‘Our pilot tests point to catastrophic performance when loading data to the [...]
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