"Smith, Todd" wrote:
> Hello Ignacio,
>
> I do understand your statement, but this is unacceptable! If it takes 10
> years to develop a decent medical application, there will not be anyone left
> to be able to use it. I certainly do not plan on working in healthcare in
> the unreasonable and criminally negligent working conditions for 10 more
> years waiting for a application. At the rate that you are describing, how
> many changes in the medical community do you expect? Any application to be
> useful has to be useful now, not years from now. It seems that design
> assumptions that are made today will not be valid in 10 years.
I would not pay attention much to forum babble or forum disagreements. The ones
in the trenches who are doing the real work frequently don't post much or
you've never heard from them at all. The real consensus happens privately away
from the 'I disagree, it should be...blah, blah.' You can find someone to
disagree and give an uninformed opinion anywhere that there is public
discourse, it is hardly representative.
I don't have 10 years to get a proper instrument either, but even if a perfect
open source EMR were ready today, it would still take 10 years for it to be
widespread and to finally gain universal acceptance. Closed source companies
spend years getting market share. Besides, I don't see *all* of the Linux
distributions themselves reaching ready-for-prime-time (desktop) status until
December of this year and I'll be posting an article on why pretty soon.
Happily, I think that some of the EMR projects are going to be ready for
service at the same time.
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-- Ignacio Valdes, Editor: Linux Medical News
http://www.linuxmednews.com
'Revolutionizing Medical Education and Practice'
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