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Hi all There are many ideas through this forum in how software can
be better developed and designed with the end user in mind. Given this interest in starting a new enterprise I was
wondering whether it is possible that this group could identify the 5 most
important things that they feel a “system” would have that would
make them want to use it. This could serve a purpose of articulating what the
initiative is all about and give focus to the initiative. Even at worse it
could give feedback to the wider development community. So: What are the 5 important things that computers/software/software
developers could do that would create an improvement in General Practice? Improvement can be defined as “safer, efficient, effective,
sustainability, make a practice run more profitable, better patient outcomes”
or other things. I think it is important that we are able to clearly see that
the suggestion will be an improvement not a motherhood statement like prescribing
being safer. Safer than what would be my response. While I am sure many of you have a longer list – I am
trying to get wide participation, get a list going and get people to think
about the 5 most important ideas. You can be a clinician, work with clinicians
as practice staff, IT support, patient or observer of general practice. Without pre-empting or introducing research bias these are
the things that would make you/GP practices switch from your current product to
a product/company that did these things, maybe you would pay more for an
application/service that did these things. What I am proposing to do if there is merit in this is to
collate the responses, feed it back to this group to elicit further improvement
ideas, put together a survey based on this list, propose a study design and put
it to an outlet like Pulse IT to run a wider survey. I am happy to sort out
data entry, analyse the results, write them up and make the data available. Happy
to have help as well. The results could be then be fed back through Pulse IT, other
media outlets and the MSIA for starters. Would be interested in Simon’s and
other media response to this… The focus is on what people want more than anything else and
then try and put it to the people to vote so that the market place has spoken.
Most software developers have a mile long list of enhancements. This may get
them to focus on what the market place is telling them. This may also serve the
enterprise in thinking about what they are setting out to achieve. The process will be completely in the public domain with as
wider circulation as possible and are happy to waiver any rights I have or don’t
have over the IP. Geoff Sayer PS I happy to take offline suggestions if people wish to
remain anonymous to the list and feed them back into the process. |
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