On 31-May-06 Macfarlane, Alison wrote:
> Well, it's a bit more than PCs, isn't it?
> http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/
I agree, of course, Alison -- but, as was clearly flagged, it was
a fantasy scenario to stimulate visualisation of the scale of the
impact!
> I missed the programme, but agree that the whole thing is a mess,
> repalcing antiquated but functioning 1980s systems with dysfunctional
> 21st century systems.
>
> The child health system in North East London, RICHS was designed in the
> late 1980s to administer the systems for child health checks and
> immunisations, to hold clinical information and to disgorge anonymised
> statistics on immunisation and anonymised birth notification data for
> epidemiological analysis and has been extensively used for that
> purpose. It doesn't say much that after a year the new system has yet
> to acieve the functionality of the old, in other words to reach the
> level of the late 1980s!
That's a very pertinent comment. My suspicion -- which I'd welcome
comment on -- is that the old systems fell more naturally into
the grasp of the people who had to use them, and also of the
people who were responsible for setting them up and programming
them. I fear that the new systems may be beyond the grasp of the
users, even of the in-house system admins, and the complexities
of the NHS in relation to the projected system may be beyond the
grasp of the consultancy firms who decide what the system will be.
Not to mention various non-NHS projects, of course ...
Best wishes,
Ted.
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