Horst Herb wrote: > On Wednesday 06 June 2007, Tim Churches wrote: >> NEHTA, your tactics are terrible! But your strategy is pretty good, I >> think. > > Are you trying to say not having a real strategy is a good strategy? > This time you really have lost me. > > The dictionary (WordNet 2.0) defines strategy as "an elaborate and systemic > plan of action". Could you identify one?
We could argue forever over the semantics and senses of the words strategy and tactics, but I have taken "strategy" to broadly mean *what* one wants to do, and *tactics* to broadly mean *how* one achieves those goals. > The only strategy I could identify is "achieve a monopolistic situation by > some mighty industrial player who will solve all our IT problems and > implement our grandiose plan" That does seem to be the worrying thrust of their tactics. > Tactics seem to be "eradicate all small players in that software market,, set > unrealistic goals and timeframes and procrastinate any immediate or short > term workable solutions". I'm not sure that active eradication of small players is part of their tactics, but ignoring small local players in favour of large foreign software vendors does seem to be part of the NEHTA game plan (tactics). > My impression was that their tactics are noxious but effective - it is the > strategy that is harming us somewhat terrible. Their strategy: goals of messaging standards, EHR standards, unique patient and provider identifiers, universal clinical terminologies and so on - they all seem sound to me - those are roughly the things that I would identify as needing to be addressed. It is just *how* NEHTA is going about achieving those goals with which I have a problem. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
