[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/17/00 9:06:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > Possible alliance?
> >
> > http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/974512781/index_html
> >
> > Maybe the big boys would like to play in this sandbox?
>
> On the stroy at this URL about the LeapFrog Group, spearheaded by GE, I have
> this to offer:
>
> General Electric displayed a huge banner over their booth proclaiming
> themselves "the world leader in Radiology Informatics" at the 1999
> Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference in Chicago.
> Unfortunately, nobody present, including sales, management, and engineering
> representatives, could explain to me what that term meant. They actually said
> they did not know. I had only identified myself as a physician at that point,
> not as a medical informatics professional, and expressed incredulity on
> nobody being able to explain the banner to me. Under pressure, one GE
> engineer offered the statement "I think it has something to do with computers
> attached to our x-ray machines."
>
> These industry players are going to motivate hospitals to challenge the
> politics and backwaters-thinking in their IS deparments. When the
> organization depends upon quick, efficient IT implementation, there's not
> much time for the usual fiascos
> (http://members.aol.com/medinformaticsmd/failure.htm).
>
> I wish them luck. They'll need it.
>
> -- S.
>
> -- S.
Whew, the above medinformatics article was a mouthful and a warning to
technological reformers that think this is going to be easy. For the same
reason I didn't put a dime into Healtheon's stock as I suspect they where
underestimating how tough the business is. My thought was that the leapfroggers
seem to have money to throw around and I'd rather see it be thrown on something
that has a much higher chance of success than the usual expensive disaster.
-- IV
