On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 12:22, David Forslund wrote: > Where I agree, is what I keep hearing from hospitals that have purchased > a large system (usually for billing). They tell me that despite the > fact that they've paid the vendor some $10+M, the vendor owns them > rather than the other way around. They believe they can only do what > the vendor tells them they can do. They've totally lost control of their > resources. This is a big and recurring problem as far as I can see. > This is where open source can help. But it only helps. I find that there > isn't enough expertise in the hospital for them to understand what they > really need. > They are dependent on the vendor for that knowledge. This is where the > danger lies. > The same situation could happen with an open source installation. I don't > have > a good solution for this problem. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
The problem is that very few healthcare facilities have really strong informatics departments. All have strong medical, surgical and nursing departments, all have strong administration and billing departments, and many have strong IT departments. But few have strong informatics departments. The people in informatics departments need to have intimate and deep understanding of what people in all the other departments do. System vendors understand this - just look at the backgrounds of the teams they field when providing services to clients. Tim C > > Dave > > > >Fred Trotter > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >Fred Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >SynSeer > -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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