Tim said In health informatics though, failures are forgotten and swept under the carpet as rapidly as possible. Or they are rebranded as "indefinitely deferred successes"...
or all the evaluation reports are just kept secret so no one knows what happened! Cheers David. ---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:36:05 +1000, Tim Churches wrote: > Ken Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For the edification of my students I maintain a list [not complete] of the >> various enquiries, task forces, committees, reports, etc. that have meant to >> give direction to E-health in Australia. >> >> What is particularly ironic is that no such list exists on any current >> government (or NEHTA) web site (although most of these reports are still retrievable >> from the archives if you know what to search for)! >> > > Yes. In engineering practice, failures are greeted with both dismay and > delight - delight because they provide an opportunity to learn how to do things > better - they are seized upon and dissected in excruciating detail, or if > more protean, collected and statistically analysed to death, in order to extract > every last clue about how to avoid the same mistakes and failure modes in the > future. As a result, buildings, even very tall ones, don't collapse (unless > pushed), bridges hardly every fall down, lifts don't plummet and modern cars > tend not to break down very much (some makes excepted). Even computer hardware > is so much more reliable today than it used to be, through failure analayis. > In health informatics though, failures are forgotten and swept under the carpet > as rapidly as possible. Or they are rebranded as "indefinitely deferred > successes"... > > Tim C > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > __________ NOD32 2308 (20070604) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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