At 8:45 pm +1000 9/7/06, David More wrote:
Hello Ian,
Just what is the Australian history.
I don't know.. and I was the developer, with Paul, of the GPCS spec.
Give us a clue!
Previously posted last week....see below
US does have the advantage that cost of certification can be
amortised across a much larger potential market that here. If
anything, certification will provide a stimulus for harmonisation of
health informatics standards globally, because our piddly little
market has demonstrated it can't support the cost of certification
and our government is not interested in pushing with dollars.
.....but given that we are among the present global leaders in health
informatics standards and our government sees health informatics
international standards of uncertain value, the long term future for
health informatics vendors in this country looks poor.
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:31:03 +1000
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From: Ian Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Don't forget the GPCG and previously the RACGP had been chasing
software accreditation along with industry round and round over many
years.
It is a non-trivial exercise.
The best specs ever written down were the IBM GPCS functional
specifications..... nobody wanted to be accredited on that.
ISO/IEC 15504 SPICE accreditation was explored by local software
experts under Software Engineering Australia (Qld) and deemed too
expensive in the GP setting.... project report should on the GPCG
web site....no further steps were taken.
Certification of standards compliance could be possible, but we
still don't have all the standards functional.....still work in
progress at NeHTA.
Not sure that there are robust accepted methods for accrediting
usability, since modern software (and many other human artefacts,
especially technological) suffer from usability problems.
It makes sense to me that there should be demonstrable usability,
safety, quality, etc around software. But the pathway to getting
there is not well made.
Accreditaiton of functionality in support of practice standards had
a run at one stage and seems likely to have legs in the long term...
since we see the beginnings of it already in PIP requirements and
broadband security standards.
Ian.
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