> Medical personnel education follows a precise and very standardized > pattern, that includes lots of paper based information and > human-to-human knowledge transfer. Up until now every single attempt to > change that has not been very successful. Just ask for some source of > consensual and relevant medical literature and you will be enlightened.
I have 1,5 years medical university behind me (before I went to US). In my time I have used CD's to learn human anatomy (besides the book that was a pain in the...).. and I was the best one in class. > > > and they want to see the functionality and the benefits of such system. > > That is usually the case. > > > What a better way to show them then with a tutorial video. > > Wrong. Very wrong. Hospital personnel and medical and paramedical > personnel in particular make their living based in inter-personnel > relationships. In their day-to-day work they must trust each other, or > someone else (usually a patient) will be hurt. > Either you follow that pattern too or, in due time, you will be put away. I know to honor inter-personnel relations and having someone show you how to do it, but ok, were are talking here about totaly different things... How can they than trust a computer, to do the things he is supposed to do for them? Ok, I do not underestimate the value of a personal support, but helps to have something else to lean on when there is no personal support. > > > 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. > > If something works... don't fix it! If, up until now, they managed to > fix all those printers and computers you should be better letting them > continue to do their jobs. That way it would be easier to conquer their > good will towards the "new things" that you are trying to implement. > You may have already started the process of "anti-body" building against > you. No, no, no.... It is a perception thing... or an angle at which you look at it. The computer department does not work (they have 50 pc's) and now they want to have an IT system for the whole hospital (network, servers, software, support, education). They them selves realise that this task of implementation can't be done without the propper reorganisation. If you have a service that fixes computers (technology) how in the world are you going to handle the other part of it (information and communication). > >>3. Will they bother with video tutorials, sound effects, colorful > >>screens, cute icons, or other gimmicks? > > I say, they will bother, cause I bother. > > You are not a doctor, nor a nurse, nor a hospital administrative clerk. > Most probably you did not ever treated a single person. Neither did you > studied a medical book. How do you know how medical personnel think, how > they learn, or how they organize their work? ok, I never treated a single person (I'm not a doctor), but I did study a whole lot of medical books, my sister is a doctor, and half of my family are doctors. For an IT person I have a whole lot of medical expirience and knowledge. > > 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. > > Counting with the formative period I have daily lived in hospitals for > almost 26 years now. > I have been a medical doctor for almost 20 years (a few months missing). > My specialty - plastic surgery - is all about precision, discipline and > hard work for many hours in a row. > Besides that I have been working with computers and with fellow workers > who also computers as a user, programmer, systems analyzer for almost > the same time. Besides that, during all those years I have worked with 4 > major Hospital Information System software packages... all of them would > be the ultimate, most perfect and final effort from the software > industry to lead us to a world of efficiency, easiness and paperless > healthy working environment... I didn't mean you personaly, I meant the medical personel in my hospital. > > Icons, sound effects and colorful screens work psychologicaly, > > they help people to remember some functions, screens, buttons for what > ever. > > Yes they help. > > > There are people which are scared of computers and this might help them > to > > see that it can be easy to work with them. > > No it does not. Don't be fooled by that. Real work with real computers > help. And having a knowledgeable human near by to help them finding > their way helps even more. There is no substitute for a warm and > supportive person. No, but how do you bring a knowledgable human to about 1400 medical personnel? > > Care2x is a tool for getting the job done (you are right there), > > but having a nice looking tool is even better. > > Is it? I would rather have an ugly but very intelligent tool (having > lots of Bayes systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy > logic... whatever). Until then, I wish me a good system that does the job and looks good at it. > > Manuals, could be in multimedial form, they are easier to learn and to > the point. > > Oh, but they are not. Human learning follows precise patterns. Various > studies have shown that it is far easier to read, learn and memorize > >from written paper materials than it is from images on a screen. That is > why it is so frequent for someone to do a print of whatever they are > seeing in the screen and then peacefully digest that paper until the > contents are fully understood. Ok, I am talking about video tutorials, with spoken text, and showin you where to click. You are talking about PDF's or text documents, and I have a problem with that too. But from my education, I have found it a whole lot easier to see a video of a paring ritual than to read how they do it (bad example). > > > 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. > > Sometimes we are wrong. Sometimes we simply miss the needed experience. > Many times our perception of the surrounding world leads us into > building a model that although beautiful and logic is... wrong. > > For now, you just remember me the Luca Romoli idealism. > > Best regards, > > J. Antas OK... 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