I find this fascinating mostly because I know what data they want to collect and how you would go about getting it. You’d have to hire a software engineer or a database programmer to dump the data on treatments and charges. Doing that over so many years would be weekend work because no RO department would want to run patient treatments while the database is busy dumping records via an SQL query. So you could only do this while not treating. Some sites use an empty database when they get a major upgrade. So you’d have to setup virtual machines and install old versions of database from archive and install old software to get the data out. Hospitals can’t do that on their own.
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I find this fascinating mostly because I know what data they want to collect and how you would go about getting it. You’d have to hire a software engineer or a database programmer to dump the data on treatments and charges. Doing that over so many years would be weekend work because no RO department would want to run patient treatments while the database is busy dumping records via an SQL query. So you could only do this while not treating. Some sites use an empty database when they get a major upgrade. So you’d have to setup virtual machines and install old versions of database from archive and install old software to get the data out. Hospitals can’t do that on their own.
None of that is a trivial task.