On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 21:53, Tim Churches wrote: > 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.
Agreed! > The people in informatics departments need to have intimate > and deep understanding of what people in all the other departments do. Ok. > System vendors understand this - just look at the backgrounds of the > teams they field when providing services to clients. Do you have direct experience with "teams" like this? Closest thing I saw was a salesperson that kinda had a clue. After that it was geeks that didn't have a clue how the hospital operated. This was from two of the top vendors in the world......maybe my experiences weren't typical? To keep this somewhat on topic though................ We are looking at implementation issues across the healthcare domain. Commercial system vendors have incentives to balkanize their customers. The key goal for opensource healthcare IT should be to combat this balkanization via schema and communication standards adoption. Later, Tim
