On Sunday 17 December 2006 23:33, Jon Patrick wrote: > I must say that I don't think forms per se consitute the problem. Forms > are very useful as they carry the context of the contents and give some > information about the relationships between the elements on the form. > It would be fine for each clinician to have their own forms if
The only user friendly form is the form the user never has to fill in (manually), and the user never has to extract data from (manually). If we use the term "form" as a synonym for structured machine readable data that is created by the computer "on the fly" from already entered data, packed into format that will allow another computer to reliably process that information without human information - then yes, forms need not be such a bad thing. But if you refer to those horrible paper things that require me to stock huge boxes of useless pre-printed paper (where storage costs many times more than the paper itself), or those horrible on-screen forms that require me to enter data repeatedly / manually despite existing already in some format accessible from this computer ... then no, they are not user friendly - they are as hostile as they get, and I will have nothing to do with them but total war, no enemies taken, no mercy shown. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
