> However, I believe the fundamental issue is less a technical matter and more > an natural 'tension' between concerns for operational > effectiveness--delivery of quality health care, and the interest in > administrative IT that arises from management. These two groups in most any > enterprise you may choose to study are chronically in a state of 'conflict' > due their different priorities and requirements for IT, and information > management architecture. >
If I may interject This is a fundemental error that I've seen pertetrated for years now. There is no conflict between IT and archetectural concerns and usability. Human usability is simply part of the scientific theory and technology of every other scientific part of computer system design. As clearly that you wouldn't let a patient perform surgury on themselves, it is equally just as certain that implimentation should never be in the hands of non-computer science engineers. It is simply irresponsible. There is no tension between the IT professionals and the users. There is just ignorance of the users to think they know what they need better than the Ph.D's and Masters of Comp Sci, and the bigotry of the IT professionals who refuse to learn anything about human interface design. Such IT professionals, BTW, are almost always not Comp Sci majors (or those old enough to have gotten in on the ground floor prior to it being wildly available as a schooling option). I've been a proponent of serious non-bias Comp Sci education in high school education and within the university setting. Unfortanelty, this is almost as hard as getting non-bias drug information today. However, it's ridicules for people without an IT background to make serious assertions about product design without a clue about the serious implications to design and implementation. Tell us what your symptoms are, and we can help you. Dictate the cure and you'll be on the fast tract to an early and painful grave. Ruben -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://fairuse.nylxs.com "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn.... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
