At 12:01 +0000 11-07-1998, Ian Trimble wrote:
>On Thu 09 Jul, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>
>> The IT adviser from Cornwall HA, in front of her big boss from NHSE,
>> listened to me saying among other things that a few GPs who code are
>> handy in PCGs and so on, and then blew me out of the water as she
>> thought by saying there is no need for GPs to understand
>> programming,especially in VB, what we need is tools like MIQUEST to
>> run on our existing systems.
>>
>> In case there is somebody here who didn't know, and there might be
>> one, MIQUEST query editor was written by that estimable GP and coder
>> David Markwell, in VB4.
>
>
>You could tell her that he also wrote Meditel's System 5 ;-)
>
>He's currently leading the European project which is working on
>defining the Electronic Health Care Record, amongst other things.
>
This is very true ?
Almost true!
He is developing an European Health Care Message Standard.
Not the HealthCare Record.
(Between you and me, there is not much distinction between these two notions)
And yes its true David is a phycisian.
But he left the practice in order to become a Coder, thinker and developer.
And I think a good one.
Greetings
Gerard
ProRec- Nederland
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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