On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 Horst Herb wrote:
-- SNIP --
> Welcome to planet earth. Who enters drugs in lists to check for
> interactions? The majority of doctors are general practitioners, and they
> tend to be too busy to do that. When I prescribe, the drugs this patient
> is on are already stored in the database from previous prescriptions or
> from my present history taking. Only the new prescription has to be
> entered (quick, by pick list:-)). In the background, the software checks
> the interactions. How can you ever see a 30-50 patients a day by entering
> something into web sites? How can you ever maintain referential integrity
> if you rely on the user to type without spelling errors? By prompting him
> with a "not found" message? Do that 10 times with a doctor in a busy
> practice and find the display smoking and badly punched in the trash bin
> same day;-).
Whereas I understand that everyone on this list is allowed their own
viewpoint, I would appreciate if you would not trash web-based interfaces
merely because you feel that they are not your cup of tea. If you don't
want to use one, don't. Just please refrain from trashing the work that
everyone else here does, please.
> > > within the intellectual range of any person with at least a
> > > baccalaureate degree, and only one or two iterations are generally
> > > required to learn the spelling, or the victim is not paying attention
> > > to his own spelling behavior.
>
> Which planet do you come from?
Also please do not be condescending. With few exceptions, the people on
this list are highly educated doctors and Information Technology experts. I
think we can have a civil debate without resorting to petty taunts. (I
actually agree with your dissention of the statement, but that's beside the
point)
If you don't like how it's being done, please either code it your way, but
don't trash everyone else. It's difficult enough for us to agree on
anything without arguing and flinging mud. Let's just figure out some way
to make our packages talk to each other.... you can do yours your way, and
I'll do mine my way. As long as they talk to each other, physicians can
decide what they like to use. It's completely academic to do otherwise at
this point, since no one here has a completely finished product (with
perhaps an exception in Telemed or Tk_familypractice), and everything is a
work in progress.
I think I'll be very disappointed if I get flamed for this one.
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jeff b
system administrator
university communications
university of connecticut
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