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I don't think it's funny and I don't think either the hospital or the consultants/contractors/employees who built this system are worth their weight in salt. I
by fnid2 17y ago
I don't think it's funny and I don't think either the hospital or the consultants/contractors/employees who built this system are worth their weight in salt.
It was a horribly expensive move and had very little benefit to the system or the patients or the hospital. It was a huge waste of money and it is decisions like this that are sending health care costs through the roof.
How incompetent must you be to go through all that and find out after months of work and thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of dollars spent that what you were doing benefited only one person for less than 1 minute a day?
It's a really sad state of affairs that this scenario exists. Pathetic really. If I was the hospital, I'd fire the contractors and the stupid person running the system who can't remember a password. These kinds of people end up costing you more and more and more in the long run.
- isleyaardvark 17y agoIt's unfair to blame the consultants when it was entirely the client's project manager's fault. It's the PM's responsibility to figure out how many of her company's employees will use it and whether or not it's worth the cost. There's not a whole lot the consultants could have done, even if they had had the foresight to ask "By the way, is this only going to be for one user?" or "Are you really sure you want to do this?"
- bmm6o 17y agoWell, keep in mind that this is the DailyWTF, so the story has probably been enhanced for your entertainment/outrage. It's rare that you can take a story on the site at face value.