Hi Ian,
You make a very good point - there are ways of implementing useful records without using openEHR - we need to consider all the options available and the cost / value ratio of each.
Cheers
David
---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:43:29 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Hugh Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Dear David, >> >> Thanks for your comments, but I would just like to make the following >> points: > [snip] > > Hugh, no-one denies OpenEHR isn't fundamentally a good idea, nor that > potentially exciting stuff isn't being done with it. > The question is, it is a suitable basis for the problem at hand? > If your desire is the Ultimate Solution, then, yes, OpenEHR is good, > but it simply isn't feasible for time-poor amateur clinician-programmers > to undertake this task: it needs to be a proper govt funded setup > with fulltime PhDs and BCompSci's on board. > > For which we've been waiting a long, long time, as you know. > > Should we simply keep waiting? Or try to formulate something achievable? > "achievable" not only means limiting requirements, but also selecting a > technology that's within our intellectual capacity to actually program. > (which, speaking personally, rules out OpenEHR ;-) > > You may ask: well, if you're too busy and simple-minded to do it properly, > why do it at all? > To which I refer you to the current crop of medical EHR programs: these > guys didn't exactly win Nobel prizes when they designed this stuff. > > Could there be middle-road which is both significantly better than current > offerings, yet accepts being short of theoretical perfection? > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > __________ NOD32 1.1349 (20060102) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com |
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