Oliver wrote: >What's left is to get our hard-pressed public hospitals into gear with this. >Today I have written to our local Repat hospital to give them a nudge towards >the 21st century - the text is below. > > Every few months for the last 8 years and every month in the last six months, I have spoken with either the Clinical Superintendents or the IT directors of our local hospital about this issue. The clinicians are very keen but the IT Department is concerned about security. The clinicians say do it, the IT Department says we cannot guarantee the stability of the system. The outcome is that nothing happens. The same process applies to clinical applications within hospitals and if there is no electronic clinical data it is even more difficult to generate electronic communication with outside entities. The only successful exception I have seen to this state of affairs was when an IT savvie clinician set up his own server without consulting the IT Department.
Unless you can IT empower clinicians it will not happen in our lifetime. If this is something dear to your heart, I suggest you retire. David -- For secure communication with the GMC see http://gmc.net.au gpg key Secure Mail (Current 10 February 2005) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0x9CAE0C53 at keyserver.medicine.net.au _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
