Greg Twyford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You outline the reason why this domain will have great difficulty > progressing under the current market structure very well. The current > model works, up to a point at th level of the individual customer, but > once you pull back to a wider perspective it strats to look like a > shambles. > > The prospect of a Division's members migrating to the three or four most > common packages would make any prospect of providing meaningful training > programs, Division-level IM&T projects, etc. very difficult indeed. > > The de-facto standard that has been MD2 is inexorably fading away. With > its replacements also comes increased maintenance and training > overheads.
This is yet another powerful argument for an open-source *reference* implementation of a primary care clinical information system: shared or joint training and support for the core functionality which it provides and which would be common to any value-added variants that organisations may care to create based on it. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
