[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>1. Communication - should be reasonably straightforward. We already
>have a
>home E Mailing list for our active members.
This is a good start (and curiously is the only tehnology which my
colleagues in Devon _refuse_ to contemplate)
However the approach should include a combination of technologies, and
be able to show archives, and not be limited to enthusiasts.
Conference plus listserv plus web pages seems appropriate to aim for.
One of the problems of electronic discussions seems to me to be the
functions performed by the minutes of a conventional meeting, of
recording decisions and providing a brief and persistent note of whe
made decisions, and what business was dealt with. A web page seems to
be th ebest tool for this.
WHatever technology is used, the more documents in it are "live"
documents updated frequently by their owners to reflect current status,
and the fewer are merely copies of something printed placed on display
and allowed to go out of date the better.
For instance the agenda document should become the minutes document.
>2. Information Management - grappling with this one.
>As part of the coronary disease management programme we are trying to
>develop consistent data collection across a locality of mainly one
>clinical
>system but with a few reprobates (like my practice). I think the Agro
>software can be used to collect data but my concern is that it will
>have to
>be run separately to the clinical system which duplicates work.
THat seems such an appalling idea....
Surely software for that purpose must be written to access the original
data, and again, MIQUEST does seem to have solved that one - leaving
the choice of clincial software, or its development an easier question.
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