I presumed then and still presume that Mr. Gates like just about everyone else grossly estimates the difficulty of Healthcare IT. Optimism in this business is a disease that infects even those who should know better such as faculty at schools of health informatics. For example, classic software project management techniques are taught as gospel and adhered too rigorously despite a demonstrated high failure rate. I suppose you have to teach something.
-- IV --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The driving force for the programme was, so far as I can tell, a pitch > by Sir William Gates 3 over lunch at number 10 to the outgoing prime > minister, and therefore, in the nature of these things, as The Rt Hon Mr > Anthony Blair MP steps back to being a back bench MP, the plan is likely > to fall apart. > > > -- > Midgley > Not by any means an astute political commentator, but occasionally known > to get it right. >
