2008/7/27 Graham Balin <[log in to unmask]>:
> Needless to say one cannot d/l their source code [yes, I know it was a
> rhetorical question] and my impression is that developers need a critical
> mass of requests from users before they see the most patently obvious
> improvements as being worth working on.
I agree it would be most helpful to be able to order the medications.
Indeed it ought to be possible for the system to order them
automatically according to BNF drug group, which should be the
default.
I suspect that EMIS are more concerned with providing features
required to implement HMG's latest wheezes than making life easier for
their users. If you remember, it is no longer the users who pay the
piper. Hardly surprising that EMIS dance to the Government's tune.
As well as having a dangerously disorganised medication screen there
are two other issues I would like them to attend to.
(1) the word processing code in LV is seriously buggy and editing
large amounts of text is a nightmare.
(2) the title bar of LV proudly announces "(c) 2001" and I am
effectively using the same screen to view clinical data as when I was
first an EMIS customer in 1994. In those days it felt a little
antiquated to be using a screen that might have graced an original IBM
PC/AT machine a decade earlier. Now we are another 14 years on but
still using the same primitive screen.
Now I know that EMIS Web is said to be around the corner and there are
some beta tests going on. But with EMIS, things are always just around
the corner.
Ho hum.
Mike
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Michael Leuty
Nottingham, UK
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