From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cedric Meyerowitz
"Again I ask the question: Were all the current software companies contacted & informed & feed back sought about this ?" As for being informed, they should have been paying attention to this sort of thing anyway, if Health IT is their chosen area of, erm, excellence. On the feed back issue, I would prefer the opinions of those who use the coding systems, and especially those that get value out of using them, over the views of the software vendors. As has been said recently, many don't even see a need to encode their notes, when a bit of free text will do. That really comes back to how much IT understanding or expectations a person has, or more appropriately, how far that person is prepared to extend or go out of their way to adapt to a digital format of concise data elements. At least if one methodology is accepted as the standard for the country, those that are currently reluctant to take up such rigidity over free text may start to see more validity in coding, with the removal of that area of doubt over which method is better than the other. -- Les Ferguson Business Analyst Medtech Software Ltd Auckland, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
