In a message dated 10/27/00 3:26:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Then that makes it an opportunity for opensource advocates to go
> and have an audience with less competition from the naysayers
> doesn't it?
Absolutely. In fact, you'll probably do better in pushing the cause. You're
not so much in the crosshairs of the hospital IT people (i.e., identified as
evil aliens out to destroy the earth and their comfortable IT shop and golf
games with the Board).
The victory would be complete if the clinical personnel involved in IT could
actually lead such projects and make such decisions. Right now, most
"clinical directors of information technology" are usually just advisors
(i.e., unempowered "directors of nothing"). I've been there, as have many of
my colleagues.
Scot
