RE: [GPCG_TALK] Unscripted errors

[Dr John Van Dyck]

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Md 2 to 3 and vice versa can be done via XML I believe but of course that doesn’t change your point.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Meyerowitz Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 6:31 PM To: 'Andrew Magennis'; 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] Unscripted errors   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       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Magennis Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:30 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Unscripted errors 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   Contact Work Tel: 03 9810 4510 Work Fax: 03 9819 3263 Mobile: 0417 135 302 Home Fax: 03 9882 3251 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.hcn.com.au ----- Original Message ----- From: Elizabeth Dodd To: General Practice Computing Group Talk 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. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list Gpcg_talk@ozdocit.org http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk

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