Of course, your perspective on the money is about hospitals and profit making. Over here in the UK with a nationalised health service we of course have a much different view ;)
We are trying to implement a centralised patients records system, but alas it's not going too well. I am sure we will get there. I am sure most of these problems stem from contracts being awarded to large consultancies (Accenture etc) and from my experience, don't seem to have any actual decent development talent but merely people who can project manage, sit on conference calls and create pretty architecture diagrams. Small and nimble teams are the way forward.
"I've seen CardioThoracic surgeons who makes $750 thousand a year cutting into beating hearts struggle for an hour trying to put orders into a new computer system . A lot of physicians trained in the last 40 years never learned to type, and really don't use computers much"
Please! They should learn to type. Learn to join the real world. Why molly-coddle a few old surgeons who are on $750k / year? They'll be retired soon anyway and the next generation will takeover. They should either learn or get out
We are trying to implement a centralised patients records system, but alas it's not going too well. I am sure we will get there. I am sure most of these problems stem from contracts being awarded to large consultancies (Accenture etc) and from my experience, don't seem to have any actual decent development talent but merely people who can project manage, sit on conference calls and create pretty architecture diagrams. Small and nimble teams are the way forward.
"I've seen CardioThoracic surgeons who makes $750 thousand a year cutting into beating hearts struggle for an hour trying to put orders into a new computer system . A lot of physicians trained in the last 40 years never learned to type, and really don't use computers much"
Please! They should learn to type. Learn to join the real world. Why molly-coddle a few old surgeons who are on $750k / year? They'll be retired soon anyway and the next generation will takeover. They should either learn or get out