Will health IT be Obama version of the Iraq War

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A can of worms

In the early 80s I developed a purchase order
management system for a chain of department stores.
The basic design was actually fairly simple. But that
was based on everything working perfectly, which
seldom happens in retailing

The difficulty was in identifying what didn't go as
planned and developing the means of addressing those
issues. It's a real can of worms.

HIT is fairly similar when it comes to addressing issues
that are not "within normal environments". All you
have to do is consider the rapid development of
medical knowledge to understand the challenge of
keeping systems up with that.

Proprietary systems will, I believe, get "something" up
and running and will then slowly fall behind in terms of
updating new technologies and maintaining the old
system.

There is, I believe, a need to ensure that any system
developed is "universal" in terms of OS environments. I
use an Apple and should have no problem using the
system.

May sound stupid, but look at the challenges in the
Windows world where MS wants people off of XP while
trying to get a replacement of Vista out the door. We
certainly don't need to have HIT tied to MS to the point
where other systems are disadvantaged.

Posted by: Ken_z   Posted on: 02/19/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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