http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/01/13/joel-diamond-11409/ Physician practice and systems news and opinion Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/01/13/joel-diamond-11409/comment-page-1/#comment-14 nance Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:59:30 +0000 http://histalkpractice.com/2009/01/13/joel-diamond-11409/#comment-14 More agreement from this non-doc -- process and workflow are keys to success! Many IT projects leave these subjects on the sidelines expecting folks to figure it out for themselves. For clinician adoption it seems to help to fit into existing process flows as much as possible so little change is required before the benefits are felt. Change requires extra energy to overcome inertia. Tough while everyone is already using a lot of energy to get the job done! The penetration of technology in every aspect of our lives over the last few years should make it easier to get adoption in the medical workplace. More agreement from this non-doc — process and workflow are keys to success! Many IT projects leave these subjects on the sidelines expecting folks to figure it out for themselves. For clinician adoption it seems to help to fit into existing process flows as much as possible so little change is required before the benefits are felt. Change requires extra energy to overcome inertia. Tough while everyone is already using a lot of energy to get the job done! The penetration of technology in every aspect of our lives over the last few years should make it easier to get adoption in the medical workplace.

]]> http://www.histalkpractice.com/2009/01/13/joel-diamond-11409/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Nick Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:28:05 +0000 http://histalkpractice.com/2009/01/13/joel-diamond-11409/#comment-13 Right on..as one colleague said to me and I quote often..."if it costs me one nano second longer I ain't going to use it". But to address the problems we cannot keep muddling on and doing our best and our clinicians must find a way of integrating these tools efficiently into their practice. I think they would agree that the availability of information in a well organized and computer interpretable form is part of the solution. To that end getting the data in is the key element that has been missing and achiveing this wiht speech understadnign http://speechunderstanding.blogspot.com/2009/01/plans-to-computerize-us-healthcare.html is going to go a long way to improve the usefulness and usability of these systems Right on..as one colleague said to me and I quote often…”if it costs me one nano second longer I ain’t going to use it”. But to address the problems we cannot keep muddling on and doing our best and our clinicians must find a way of integrating these tools efficiently into their practice. I think they would agree that the availability of information in a well organized and computer interpretable form is part of the solution.
To that end getting the data in is the key element that has been missing and achiveing this wiht speech understadnign
http://speechunderstanding.blogspot.com/2009/01/plans-to-computerize-us-healthcare.html
is going to go a long way to improve the usefulness and usability of these systems

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