Re: [GPCG_TALK] Unscripted errors

Mon, 15 May 2006 07:30:41 -0700

Liz
The interview for this piece was quite some months ago. I believe that a sub editor has taken a comment I made about the likelihood of all players using a given standard as being unlikely and stuck it in here. My comment was made in the context of describing the current non-use of the current Australian Standard for Pathology Results transfer and how so few Path Labs actually use it.
 
I believe that I speak generally on behalf of all of the main stream clinical and front desk software houses when I say that all I have spoken to about standards are very keen for their introduction - with the obvious proviso that who ever made then, actually knew what they were doing. No one wants to follow the adoption of a "standard" that is wrong for the task at hand.
Andrew
 
Dr. Andrew Magennis
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Medical Director
Health Communication Network
 
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Unscripted errors

On Monday 15 May 2006 17:06, Ken Harvey wrote:
> Magennis, who is also medical director at HCN, the manufacturer of
> market-leading general practice software prescribing package Medical
> Director, says while standards for software content are a good idea in
> theory, he suspects this is utopian and unachievable.

I hope that this is a misquote.
How will we ever get our path results straight if this is the attitude of the
software makers?
We will need NEHTA to push and to legislate - but please ask us first, not
after it all stops because you make our software unusable.
(like the useless directive that every drug shall default to nil repeats on a
script)
Liz


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