Medical records? Ethically your number 1 issue is security now, and it may be legally also depending upon where you're building this. While a web framework is

Medical records? Ethically your number 1 issue is security now, and it may be legally also depending upon where you're building this. While a web framework is a great place to start for things like this, I do implore you to keep the medical records that it stores as far away from the Internet as possible, if you can. At least consult really good security guy if you must have them on the net. Opinions: Both are notionally MVC web packages. * Joomla: Joomla is actually a CMS - and most medical records are text, so - maybe it'd work - but I'd be worried about the burden of the cruft, as well as laying your own security over something that's designed for publishing stuff. It'll be quick to get something up, though. * Django: You can build any kind of database, CMS or virtually anything you can see on the web in Django - so I'd start there. Django has usable security out of the box, too. Joomla is PHP and Django is Python, so in the interests of code reuse I'd personally go Django every time. Some quite big desktop apps are built in Python, so you'd be in good company.