[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>>>I dont know, but integration wiht GP IT is a must for NHS-D to work in
>>>the way it needs to for primary Care. We have been looking at this and
>>>pulling the relevant people together in the area to try and put some
>>>bones on the problems.
>>
>>Who, may I ask, are "the relevant people"?
>>
>HA IT advisors, Coop IT providers, GP IT providers, NHS-D IT
>All local. As you say no National strategy yet for NHS.
>Dr P.S.Fox
One can get too stuck on national strategies.
Supposing we were talking about exchanging information by writing
letters.
While a national stragy saying "you should make sure you have something
to write with and on, and a list of where people are so as to write to
them" might help, I think those of us in the loop locally would manage
to get it set up.
Now, why is it suddenly supposed to be so different with electronic
comms?
Step one, put a PC on each desk.
Step two, let everyone use available technology to network themselves.
Step three, allow people to devise information flows and applications
to help these, according to their local circumstances.
While we are on about info flows, EDIFACT is no use for lab results.
What I want is for the results to be available to me immediately they
are cleared by the lab supervisor, and th esame goes for discharge and
clinic letters.
Not parcelled up and sent the following day (although, perhaps in an
effort to make NHS Net bit carriage seem an improvement our atom
courier service is now taking 5 days to deliver much stuff. I suspect
it is one day in the source building, one in the post room, one at the
post office etc) Oh for some business process re-engineering!
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