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| DATE | 2007-10-21 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Communications In Health Care
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Hello
I'm sitting here at the hospital this evening and working in the
pharmacy and it occurs to me that aside from all the fundemental
problems with the current crop of data management systems in Healthcare
IT, there is something fundementally broken in the model of IT development.
I have to constantly beep every MD that I have trouble with, a process that is
slow and tedious. What is missing here is a focus not on the data, because that
is a problem that honestly has been solved for a decade or more. The real
problem that these systems need to solve is communications. My kids spend
all day constantly in contact with friends and family in a way that makes
me cring in jelously in the hospital evnironment. Where are the REALTIME
communication tools like IRC, AIM, and P2P data transmitions. I'm bogged
down with useless fax machines, telephones and beepers. More than 1/2 my
salery is paying for me to play phone tag and talk to nurses on the floors
in the most inefficient manner possible. Is anyone in VISTA addressing any of
these issues?
Ruben
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