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Andrew
Isn't
a start then for the various software developers example HCN, BPSoftware, IBA,
Medwin, Genie, locum etc to meet and discuss the issue of exportabilty of
records from one system to the other ? If a Dr uses MD3 and a patient
changes Dr to a GP who uses MD2 the patients medical record has to be exported
as html, and can't be imported into MD2 (both products from HCN). If
a patient changes from MD3 to a GP with BPsoftware or vice versa, again we are
stuck as we can't import the record as a XML. Not to even mention all the
other players. Can developers of software get hold of copies of MD2
and MD3 to work on this problem ? The same applies to other software
? I know BPsoftware has always made copies of their software freely
avaiable - so anybody can work on this problem.
No
wonder the labs aren't interested in working to make standards the
same.
Cedric
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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
M.B.,B.S. B.Sc (Hons) Dip. R.A.C.O.G.
Medical
Director
Health Communication Network
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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
--
In the plot, people came to the land;
the land loved them; they worked and
struggled and had lots of
children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny
and a greenhorn
from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the
crunch he was
all courage. Those novels would make you retch.
-- Canadian
novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian
novel.
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