Multi-disciplinary design/development/support groups focused on specific targets plus
products and services optimized for communities of users.
This does not mean one standard product/service for all, but does embrace interfaced,
interoperable products and services. Hence, regardles of location, the proper and complete
information is transportable and mobile (e.g., take it with you).
Currency systems seem to get along well enough so that citizens of the world can pay for
the evening meal. The rates might change substantial but that is a trust issue.
Global Healthcare doesn't work like that (observations and personal experience). It needs
to work like other global systems.
We need Patients/Providers/Payers/IT and other interested/involved parties to form working
groups that will carry a project from initial thoughts to one or more supported systems.
There are more Healthcare specialities than involved IT specialities, more than I have ever
had personal contact with and more than I have had discussions with.
There are other organizations that need to be involved, e.g., the UN WHO, which by necessity
cannot be left out. We can cover the globe with a GPS system but cannot conceive of an
interconnected global Healthcare system.
Even countries have highly fragmented Heathcare systems, some areas missing critical functions.
Take the US for example. One can travel many miles in some areas without benefit of a Trauma
Center. The example isn't necessarily directed at the Dakotas or Kansas.
Bottom line is that people make Healthcare IT projects work and they are not necessarily
directly involved (e.g., the UK NHS would have been killed long ago had the electorate not
fought for it).
Start a project whose membership is all-inclusive. Great question!
Regards!
-Thomas Clark
Gary Kunkel wrote:
The flip side of this question, is probably where we should actually be spending our time....
What makes health IT projects succeed?
Gary Kunkel
"What we think about, expands" (quote by Wayne Dyer)
