>From AMIA
Andy Groves the Intel CEO has a much publicised Prostate cancer.
Intel is sponsoring a trial of the use of e-mail between doctor and
patient, 130 doctors in teh States.
Intel is said to be getting in to healthcare in a big way.
SYmpathy to Mr Groves, of course, but this may be a development with
some benefits to the development of clinical computing.
Now, if some technologically aware competent manager could, for the
first time in the history of the NHS, develope a personal interest in
using IM&T or even just th ecomms and reference sides of it, there
might be great strides made.
WHo would we nominate, and what would we like them to do first?
And, applying the classic advice to GPs - "behave now as if you had
alrady had your heart attack, to save going to al the trouble of
working yourself into one" - how shall we persuade them of the benefits
of sorting NHS IT out before its widespread failures have a personal
effect upon them?
Or is BUPA/PPP IT effective?
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