On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:26:48AM +0100, Derek Meyer wrote: > I don't claim that all old information is useless. > > My hypothesis is that clinical care generates vast amounts of information, and > very little of this vast amount is useful.?
Make that "... at any one time." > a) converts real patient records into facts, and the counts the number of > facts, > b) requires patients to be seen without a written health record and a > treatment > plan formulated, > c) reviews the treatment plans in the light of the written record, and > d) counts facts which result in changes to the treatment plan, > e) calculates the ratio of facts that were useful in altering the treatment > plan compared with the total number of facts.) Once it was said "If human beings were alike medicine could become a natural science." That is why the above plan is doomed to fail. > This is an economic problem, Health is NOT an economic problem. Care can be, but health is not. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
