Comment Comment by bcostlow While I know the article was about the UK, in the USA a lot of clinical data is not stored in an RDBMS.The software is written in MUMPS, which has a built in (sort of) document oriented data storage layer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPSYou can read the Wikipedia page and look at some sample code and draw your own conclusions on whether that's better or worse. parent bcostlow 14 years ago
The software is written in MUMPS, which has a built in (sort of) document oriented data storage layer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
You can read the Wikipedia page and look at some sample code and draw your own conclusions on whether that's better or worse.