[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> True. The university hospital (Chiang Mai, Thailand) I worked at last year
> just then installed a full blown EMR system (from Australia I was told).
Hey, we don't even have those here, in Australia. <flippancy>Maybe it
was donated to Thailand because it was so unreliable?</flippancy>
Seriously, I wonder, was it Australian software, or was it Australian
development funding which was used to buy a system from elsewhere, or
most likely, Australian aid money to buy an Australian product? Which
one, I wonder?
> Obviously that wasn't going to run on anything below 300 MHz 64 MB :-) The
> outpatient department dealt with MS-Windows client downtime by having about
> 20 machines for 10-12 doctors... While I was there (not "because" ;-) two
> people died because the system was unable to deal with FFP requests at the
> time they were needed. (Of course, the more important reason was that there
> was no plan B, no backup scheme for this. Apparently no one thought of
> just walking over to the blood bank to pick up the bags :-o )
Oh dear! That is a sobering story which shows how good intentions can
have unexpected consequences...
Regards,
Tim C
