David More wrote:
> What we did in those reports was identify, describe in some detail, place a 
> priority on 
> and try to group logically the functions required to best support running a 
> general 
> practice.

Reflecting on the this and the other relatively cheap GPCG projects
vis-a-vis the fairly large amounts of money spent on HealthConnect over
the last 6 or 7 years, without much visible effect, I wonder if GP
information systems are not a victim of the Bike Shed Effect? Huh? See
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#bikeshed

It seems to me that the Bike Shed Effect is actually rather common. For
example, the lack of debate over the decision to build a vastly
expensive water desalination plant for Sydney versus teh endless debate
over whether it is safe to re-use water from the shower to flush your
toilet ("grey" water recycling).

and on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:57:13 +1100, Horst Herb wrote:
>If you want to end up with a functional computer program, you have to create
>specs that lend themselves to implementation in software - and best done in a
>way that can create some of the boring software bits automatically from the
>specs (e.g. specs in UML). Not just the bird's eye view but the nitty gritty
>details.

Ah yes, the approach taht was adopted for GNUmed, is that right, Horst?

Tim C

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