> 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 ³system² 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 ³safer, efficient, effective, sustainability, > make a practice run more profitable, better patient outcomes² 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 Simon¹s and > other media response to this
Would be happy to facilitate such a survey and publish the results. We could run it online, and/or using fax-back forms etc. Cheers, Simon -- Simon James Publisher Pulse IT M: 0402 149 859 F: 02 9475 0029 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.pulsemagazine.com.au 6/94A Spofforth Street Cremorne NSW 2090 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
