Horst Herb wrote:
On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Andrew McIntyre wrote:
My experience with Australian Health IT is the opposite, it's the
singular focus on the Business case and a complete lack of understanding
of the technology that is the problem. The management of Health IT
should be done by people with years of experience in Health IT and not
the bureaucracy, ditto for Public Hospital management.
Couldn't agree more.
While there have been people with technical expertise in a variety of
committees - they never actually have been listened to by those who finally
made the decisions. At least I cannot remember a single case where a decision
would have been made based on technical expertise.
Current decision makers in this arena seem to be mostly a horde of buzzword
throwers in suits and ties, easily impressed by glossy pamphlets and big
names, frightened to death that somebody will some day unmask their technical
incompetence in public and point out that this emperor not only has no
clothes on, but also a tiny willy. But they know a lot about fictive and
non-fictive business cases I suppose.
My first reaction to this thread was to nod in agreement. My second
reaction was to think, "Forget them. We'll just do what we can to
improve things". Then, after reading something some off line comments
from a list member, I realised that that will just allow them to stuff
things up faster. Our duty here, if nothing else, is to keep the
bastards honest.
David
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