Steve Jones wrote: > Well my trite answer is "b(u)y my book". My longer one is that for me > these have _always_ been what I've seen as the services and the job of > IT is to deliver as appropriate to that service. So there will be a > requirement for a Booking service for the accommodation, this can be > provided by IT. There needs to be an archival and search service in > Pathology and again IT can deliver that service.
Good! It is, though, interesting to note that if you take the view that IT should be aligned to these "business services" it may work against "integration". For instance, a number of these "business services" will need, in their IT systems, a model of "patient" with information relevant to the provision of their service. If the IT is to be aligned to the services (as it needs to be if disaggregation of service provision is the aim) then the patient model has to be distributed accordingly. Rgds Ashley
