Hi,
> No they haven't. Is it because MPEG4 is a proprietary format? > But we could be talking about DivX, or even XviD, with the same results > if we just cared to analyze the fine print in the respective licenses. Well Typo3 has Xvid/mp3 section and it is a little bit bigger than wmv (I could live with that) > The really important questions are: > 1. In promoting, installing, or managing a Healthcare Information System > (that's what Care2x is all about), what is the relevance of a video > tutorial? How about showing people how easy it is to use it, how about being a tool for educating medical personel how to use the software, how about multimedial help (doctors are not IT people), how about just an excuse not to have to read a lot of pages, manuals, etc. How about IT people that are just getting to know care2x and want to do it the easy way. My case, I had to spend a lot of time with every IT person in my hospital trying to explain how to do some simple things in care2x. > 2. Who will be the persons that will be the decision-makers in the > process of acquiring (or installing, or managing) a new Healthcare > Information System? Decision Makers in hospitals that have no HIS are general managers or board of trustees, or such. My case was, none of them were IT people (all doctors) and they want to see the functionality and the benefits of such system. What a better way to show them then with a tutorial video. Installing (implementing) HIS are project managers, managing is the IT service or department. My case, It services in hospitals without HIS just fix computers and printers. I had to do a whole reorganization of the Computer department into an IT department. > 3. Will they bother with video tutorials, sound effects, colorful > screens, cute icons, or other gimmicks? I say, they will bother, cause I bother. And I bother on how to bring this system to a 60 years old doctor that still uses a type writer. You have to think of it this way, you will not be working with it, the medical people will be working with it, and if we can make it work good, and look good, then why not. Icons, sound effects and colorful screens work psychologicaly, they help people to remember some functions, screens, buttons for what ever. There are people which are scared of computers and this might help them to see that it can be easy to work with them. Care2x is a tool for getting the job done (you are right there), but having a nice looking tool is even better. > 4. Wouldn't a proper implementation of a SQL-Ledger or Compiere as > reliable accounting/ledger packages, be several orders of magnitude more > efficient in convincing lots of hospital administrators to switch to > Care2x? And what about proper program documentation and manuals? Ok, switching to care2x is something else (I think we have to build a bigger reference list, and have a working system to do that), what we have to concetrate on is getting care2x in hospitals without HIS (people don't like to change a running system so bad chances there). I belive that there are a lot of hospital administrators experimenting with care2x this instance (I know a big hospital in Oslo that probably is and they have a multi milion euro system installed). Manuals, could be in multimedial form, they are easier to learn and to the point. btw, wmv has support for different languages in one file (so I've seen on typo3.org) > In order to succeed as an hospital tool and to adequately reward its > developers, installers and supporters, Care2x must first grow up and be > perceived as a reliable and trustworthy piece of software. And that's exactly what I am working on. What a better way to have care2x percieved as a reliable and trustworthy piece of software than to have it installed and working somewhere as a reference, and properly cover it with marketing and press. Also you have to see the problems open source software has in a comercial world, namely support. That's where the video tutorials come in the play (for everyday problems). I think of video tutorials as just another extension of what is my idea of a complete and functional HIS. Best regards, Emir > > Best regards, > > J. Antas > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. 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