On Tuesday 29 August 2006 18:28, john dooley wrote: > Your presumptions are based on all installs being of benefit to a path > firm. The smaller you are the less this is true. > > But what if my suite includes a client that doesnt cost me anything > anyway? Sure its proprietary but lets do some math:
Yes, let's do some math. Any number of doctors fed up with having to install (mostly ephemeral) proprietary crap in dozens of incarnations resulting in waste of resources, incompatibilities, upgrading hurdles and unstable systems come to the conclusion that a path result that will be received reliably and consistently is ALWAYS better than a path result that may or may not be received and automatically imported / integrated into the EHR ... will give you zero business. Now you can multiply that zero with any factor you like. The result will unsurprisingly remain the same. John, in business the "customer is always right". The relationship between a doctor and a patient is not a business relationship, but the relationship between a GP and a pathologist is in most circumstances. Face it. Nobody has demanded that you should roll out Argus yourself or convince your customer base to use it. All we said is that if you don't consider our preferred way of message delivery (that is a message in a standard atomic format (e.g. HL7) encrypted with a standard method (eg X.509, OpenPGP) sent via a standard protocol (eg SMTP) in a standard wrapper allowing acks (eg HL7) - Argus des all this and is available for free, but you can always roll your won if you don't like it) as at least one option you offer, we might not consider you as an option either. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
