Hi ! There are times when I believe software in hospitals kills patients. Well maybe not directly and there is no way I can prove it but I know at least two people that may still be alive had software vendors applied some ethical guidelines to there software.
I know places where software dictates the medical workflow and leads to serious if not fatal complications. Worse is a pseudo paperless environment where patients suffer because the important information is put down on paper but noone gets to see it or expects it outside the software environment. What can you do about this ? Don't rely on software, question every information the software gives you and refuse to use software that is known to support misinformation. You might just save a life or two. I have been down that road and I am frightened to see patient's life at risk every day. Sad thing about it is hardly anyone seems to care. Good thing about it is that now I make darn sure GNUmed doesn't implement the same flaws. -- Sebastian Hilbert Leipzig / Germany [www.gnumed.de] -> PGP welcome, HTML ->/dev/null _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
