Infosystem 2005

Funny thing is that 3 speakers spoke about the same thing from the same perspective... The main themes are:

• it's expensive (whatever 'it' is)
• interoperability is mandatory (and therefore DICOM)
• HL7 is hot
• Greece has large retraining costs (yes, we have public servants that have never user a computer in thei life)
• no single 'solution' will have large success (ala Windows), rather small-scale applications that work well together (via the above protocols)
• 2 of the three speakers also mentioned the fact that electronic health record systems must change focus from the data, to the humans behind the data. This include making all data available to the patient.
• do not use 'user-friendly applications' as a target, but 'attractive applications' I'll write more later, including a post about the section on electronic government.