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A little history

As mentioned earlier, the DBMS architecture described in this article grew out of the demanding requirements for a system we were contracted to develop. That system is now the Mental Health Clinical Integrated Database (MHCID). It allows clinicians in the mental health sector in Calgary to share clinical data about patients throughout all CRHA-sanctioned mental health clinics and hospitals in the city.

The MHCID system presented us with these difficult requirements:


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