The ones who will be using the coding system is the GP. I don't know of any GP that has received correspondence about this matter - and thus we can't give input. Most GP's won't get value from it so oobviously some-one else wants all this correctly coded data.
The various software companies are bombarded with various trails on health IT - most of wish fizzles out into nothing. The HIC did same with HICOL. Then burnt their fingers when most software suppliers refused to incorporate it in their billing software. Only then did discussions take place between them & the software industry. If you want this project to be succesful, then the attitude of "they should have been paying attention to this sort of thing anyway, if Health IT is their chosen area of, erm, excellence" is a sure way to make it fail. The PKI fiasco is another reminder where "they should have been paying attention to this sort of thing anyway, if Health IT is their chosen area of, erm, excellence" didn't work, simply because some people out there decided to "they should have been paying attention to this sort of thing anyway, if Health IT is their chosen area of, erm, excellence". Cedric ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Les Ferguson Sent: Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:39 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: RE: Re: [GPCG_TALK] SNOMED Project Proposal 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 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
