On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, John S. Gage wrote:
> There is a philosophy ("The Philosophy of Unix" Mike Gancarz) that
> suggests, first, that major software applications (Unix, Apache) were
> written without much in the way of specifications and, second, that that
> is the way to do things. I do not advocate this.
Part of the problem is that many of us know what an operating system is
and what a web server is, but EMR systems are another matter. In addition,
most of have enough experience with EMR systems tht we could do a fairly
decent job with much of it, but I (at least) am not a physician or
hospital administrator, so I don't have the expertise to design this kind
of software on my own. To be honest, I sometimes feel like I've been
"processed" to death, and I've seen projects stagnate because they were
too focused on producing process document after process document. But the
fact remains that EMR systems are not ther kind of thing a degree in
computer science (actually, mathematics in my case) qualify us to
design. We need to find a way to bring our various specialties together in
developing a design, and then implementing that design.
---
Gregory Woodhouse
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"An atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the
believer caught up in his own false image of God."
--Martin Buber
