>Isn't the real problem that hospitals are light years behind general
>practice in using - and appreciating the problems of - IT.. and
>probably IM as well - BUT try to convince them!
>Come to think of it, maybe the difference is that,in general practice,
>it's the doctors setting the agenda
I take your point.
I don't work in IT or IM&T, however I think it may be that hospitals ARE
computerised. Most hospitals (as far as I know) have central
HIS (hospital administration systems). The problem probably is that these
are older, 'closed' systems from big companies, most probably written and installed
in the days before electronic links to the 'outside' were thought of.
In order to get electronic messages sent out of these systems, specialist
code would have to be written, and paid for. And experts on 'electronic archaeology'
who are able to figure out how to add things to systems written ten or twenty
years ago would have to be found.
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