Adrian wrote:
Much as one may sneer at Windows 95 tip of the day it does allow
people to absorb one or two bits at a time, and the Office Assistant
manages to present some of them related to context.
>As you rightly say Adrian context is very important and can only be
delivered by interaction >with an Electronic Patient Record.
PRODIGY was one step in the right direction, but there are some more
to take.
>PRODIGY is not finished yet and is working towards Chronic computerised
guidelines in Phase >three but this is no easy task as a host of previous
guideline projects have shown. PRODIGY is >also based on existing gp systems
rather than the systems of the future such as XML but the >information could
feasibly be used by any system and is used on over five different platforms
>now. For more information see www.schin.ncl.ac.uk/prodigy/
The production of paper guidelinesis as indefensible a waste of NHS
resources as prescribing antibiotics for colds where there are known
to be no pathogens in the nasopharynx, and reading the things in
surgery time is worse.
>I must say I totally agree about Paper guidelines;-)
Rob
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|