>From Mike D'Souza
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Having seen Medidesk at G-Mex but sadly not Ahmed, I can only say I
agree with
him again from a position which is totally free of financial interests.
The age
of the dinosaur legacy systems with their data prisons and poor support
is
drawing to close. Incidently the New Zealand PCG using Medidesk in
Hawkes bay
gave an excellent presentation.
Ahmad Risk wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 18:08:55 +0100, Laurence Miles wrote:
>
> >What is your interest in this system? If you are involved in marketing it,
> >then this sounds remarkably like an advertisement, and should not be on
> >GP-UK. Even if you are just excited about this new system which someone has
> >demonstrated to you, I feel that your comments have crossed over the
> >boundaries of what is a comment and into the advertisement category. As a
> >member of the National Vamp User Group, I would love to put the record
> >straight about just how good RHI's Vamp Medical and Vision systems are,
> >after all the misinformation which has been put on GP-UK. But to do so would
> >be cluttering up GP-UK with near advertisements, and would spark another "my
> >system's better than yours" thread.
>
> Greetings from Manchester. See? I did say I shall serve you all my
> days :-)
>
> As far as I am concerned, you may talk about VV as much as you like!
>
> Apart from the fact that I do not actually have any system that I can
> claim to be better than yours, here is my interest in MediDesk:
>
> 1. It is a totally new paradigm in clinical information management
> 2. As such, it is worthy news to gp-uk and not just a short comment
> 3. My belief, given the objectives of the WP, the PM and the IM&T
> strategy of achieving the EHR (at last we move away from the messaging
> paradigm into the EHR one), that none of the existing closed and
> vertical mono-platform, mono-application syatems (good as they may be
> but their days are over), can actually deliver said EHR.
> (apology for the long sentence!)
> 4. I wrote few pages of guidelines into html for the project but have
> no financial interest in the product
> 5. I think the rationale and thinking behind MediDesk should be
> dissiminated as widely as possible *because* it signals the arrival of
> the 4th generation of information management systems. That arrival is
> something I, and many others who are not locked in in closed systems,
> have campaigned to achieve for many years.
> 6. This is vintage Risk informing the people he knows wish to be
> informed. No advertising was intended. If you saw it as such, then
> hey ho, perhaps you don't know me well enough :-)
>
> >I have no objection to you putting a *short* comment on GP-UK
>
> Thank you for the permission, I shall bear that in mind.
>
> Ahmad
>
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