On 4 Nov 96 at 7:55, Gerard Freriks wrote:
>
> And to complicate things even more.
> One doctor will need different interfaces under different circumstances,
>
> The needed solution: a very flexible, highly scritable user-interface. And
> a general, standard database-system. Or better still a document handling
> system.
>
> Therefore much more must be studied on how doctors work, do the
> adminstrative work, how they handle medical information.
> Therefore Industrial Designers, specialists in the Computer HUman Interface
> must be involved into the early stages of the design-process of new
> systems.
>
> Allthough I believe it the above for 100%, I fear that things will stay the
> same because:
> - the industry has a low budget for research and development. (In the
> Netherlands they are not realy profitable. One big-one is for sale)
> - They are hooked to present day and old fashioned technology
I agree with your thoughts and frustrations. Until physicians get
interfaces that function at their level the systems will be a
hinderance rather than a help.
> - academia and industry is most conservative in exploiting the things they
> know, but nothing drasticaly new.
> - They think that the youngest member/trainnee is able to concoct the
> user-interface at the last moment.
I think that the interface is the most crucial part. The rest should
be more or less mechanical applications design. There are some
wonderful technologies but it is difficult to get money to develop
systems with these new and nontraditional designs.
> (In my country it is allmost impossible to transfer information easily from
> one system to an other. It is allmost impossible for physicians to exchange
> information using the system during out of hours. And that after 12-13
> years of successes in Holland (sic))
>
The same problem exists here. There are considerable standards
efforts to define things like minimal data sets and so on.
Ray
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