At 00:05 +0000 on 12-12-1996, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I must say I was surprised by the contents of Ahmad's reply to my last
> email,as it seemed rather heated and not what I had hoped for (a serious
> discussion).
>
> 1. I think you HAVE fallen into the gadget-trap - like many of the EU
> projects in AIM, etc. Yes, there are many alternative paradigms and
> methodologies which should be explored, but I am fed up to the back teeth
> of half baked, expensive and ultimately unhelpful (in the sense they turn
> clinicians off) activities seeking to push one technology over another.
> And I speak from experience when I say deja vu.
>
> 2. There is a world of difference between looking at innovative means of
> communication (passing messages is one of these) and applying a particular
> technology to achieve a goal. Pushing one technology over and above
> another as an "answer" just closes other avenues and reduces opportunities.
>
> 3. Gung-ho (never mind the theory, let's just try it) and introspective
> (let's see what we can come up with by looking at what has been done
> before) ways are complementary, and should feed off each other.
>
> 4. Standards are important (your PC is a good example of an evolved
> "standard"). Many standards are bad. Some are good. Let's try to push
> the good ones.
>
> 5. Radical ideas are needed, but must be looked at critically. There is
> very little that is really new under the sun.
>
> 6. Innovation is not an excuse for throwing out rationality.
>
Ho,ho
Hello,
First: what are your experiences, so you are fed up?
Perhaps Ahmed Risk and I can learn from that.
Then: True or not?
If we (Ahmed and I, and several others) think that the focussing up on
communication of not only data but data PLUS context/concepts instead of
focussing up on storing of data in databases, is a new paradigm, is this
true or not?
And is the Internet an important medium of communication or not?
Will making markup it possible to indicate concepts or not?
IS Edifact a way of communicating with databases in mind, as starting point?
And if we must/will follow this new Documentbased Paradigm are throwing out
rationality or increasing it?
True or not?
Greetings
Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD
C. Sterrenburgstr 54
3151JG Hoek van Holland
the Netherlands Telephone: (+31) (0)174-384296/ Fax: -386249
Mobile : (+31) (0)6-54792800
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS
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