Joseph wrote:
>
> The McMaster PCN was unique because in addition to care delivery it
teaches,
> conducts research and is heavily involved in evidence based medicine. They
> were also unique in that they had their own software. (...)
It's not unique (we have followed the same "paradigm" in South Africa for
years, based on three decades of experience partially coming out of the
"Scandinavian School of Informatics"), but regrettably very uncommon.
The over-focusing on the TOOLS (e.g. software) is not only dominant among
software developers, it's dominant among health managers too. We see again
and again that people get hooked on our software (taking up max 20% of our
overall efforts), whereas the crucial areas are institutional and human
resource development (transformation, research to understand the "business
logic", implementation, training, etc).
Regards
Calle
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