Elpidio Latorilla wrote:
I hope that those who have invested several thousand Euros/Dollars, time, efforts, paid manpower and risked money and reputation in their current real implementations in hospitals do not get insulted by the comment below.
And what if Elpidio dies in a car accident? (God forbids that!)
How long would it take to one or more of the senior developers to fully understand the code or, at least, grab the concepts and ideas behind it? 6 hours, 6 days, 6 months, 6 years?
And what about the project's supporting structure, sites, data repositories, new patches, new code, etc?
Would that project, if quickly mended over a knee, ever be the same?
During that time who would be here to support those who risked money and reputation in their current real implementations in hospitals?
A project to support real time applications, that interact and potentially interfere with the human health, shouldn't in any case depend on a single individual.
Should it be studied by medical students? Sure.
Deployed in veterinary clinics? Well, why not?
Tested in human healthcare facilities? Sure. In fact I will be doing just that.
Is Care2x ready for real life Hospital Information System support? Not yet.
There is no progress without risk. By definition, to risk is to ignore other people opinions. The story of science progress is full of people who risked.
To say that Care2x *in its actual state* is a toy is only plain common sense and should not be offensive to anyone.
But I guess that one could be tempted into agreeing with Elpidio about the need of those guinea pigs to test care2x in real life.
Now, I wonder, who is insulting who?
Best regards,
J. Antas
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