Re: Yet another goverment IT fiasco -- roll on ID cards!

MM wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2006 23:23:41 +0100, Alan Williams <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
[snip]

The latest NHS system has also suffered because the real-world objects and their capabilities, e.g. GP surgery, keep on changing with the latest government initiative. So not only do the designers not know the functions the system is meant to perform, they also don't know what is meant to do them or to what.

Too much hard-coding, then. The designers should make their systems
much more flexible by wider use of config files that can be updated
from outside the main program using a text editor.

That's sort-of how I'd do it. You can get the basic functionality for the objects and relationships working quite quickly. It still wouldn't help wrt higher-level functionality that would still need to be coded.

The fundamental
doctor-patient relationship has not changed for decades: Patient feels
ill, makes an appointment, visits doctor, receives treatment, gets
better/dies. It is not rocket science.

I'll have to disagree. The way of making appointments has changed along with who patients are meant to contact, who they see at the surgery (real doctor, nurse with special training, cleaner), how/where/when the patient receives treatment.

BTW a lot of patients don't get better or (in the medium term) die, they just cope with chronic symptoms :-(

MM

Alan
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