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As I understand it, a developer could implement this without any knowledge of the secret deal: when opening a patients records a pop-up should appear. That's ba

by icoder 7y ago

As I understand it, a developer could implement this without any knowledge of the secret deal: when opening a patients records a pop-up should appear. That's basically what the physicians would know after a using it for while too.

bryanrasmussen 7y ago
Sure, not every developer who worked on the application needs to know what would cause the modal to appear and what possible messages it might have. But I think it likely that somewhere there was a developer who knew what that there was a query | logic function checking the patients pain relievers status etc. and a developer knowing that in the database the text came back with hey you should give this guy some oxy. And I bet those developers talked together in implementing things so they knew stuff, but over time other people knew stuff too because there were probably little bugs like - the extra oxy recommendation text overflows in the patient suggestions window. or stuff like that. maybe not everyone that worked on it was fully aware but there was some people that must have been like 99% aware, based on my experience in working in lots of different sized companies over the years.
- stevula 7y ago
  Probably a developer somewhere in the process would have figured it out, but it’s possible they just built some abstraction for showing rx recommendations when certain conditions are met. The specific medications and conditions could be controlled through a CRM or admin interface without the knowledge of devs as to what actually goes in.
- jessaustin 7y ago
  For complex business support software, are pop-up messages usually written by developers? What about the various translations of those messages? Don't these all just sit in .po files somewhere? This seems like more of an "analyst" task to me.
bryanrasmussen 7y ago
hmm, but rereading you are right someone could implement this without knowing about the secret deal, but different people are different and I have definitely worked with people who would say "why this" and then "business wants it", "hmm, that only makes sense if X or Y", heck I might even do it sometimes just trying to think about why things are put together the way they are - but you're right, some people won't, so maybe the developers who implemented it all never stopped to think "but why?"

by icoder 7y ago

bryanrasmussen 7y ago

Sure, not every developer who worked on the application needs to know what would cause the modal to appear and what possible messages it might have. But I think it likely that somewhere there was a developer who knew what that there was a query | logic function checking the patients pain relievers status etc. and a developer knowing that in the database the text came back with hey you should give this guy some oxy. And I bet those developers talked together in implementing things so they knew stuff, but over time other people knew stuff too because there were probably little bugs like - the extra oxy recommendation text overflows in the patient suggestions window. or stuff like that. maybe not everyone that worked on it was fully aware but there was some people that must have been like 99% aware, based on my experience in working in lots of different sized companies over the years.

stevula 7y ago
Probably a developer somewhere in the process would have figured it out, but it’s possible they just built some abstraction for showing rx recommendations when certain conditions are met. The specific medications and conditions could be controlled through a CRM or admin interface without the knowledge of devs as to what actually goes in.
jessaustin 7y ago
For complex business support software, are pop-up messages usually written by developers? What about the various translations of those messages? Don't these all just sit in .po files somewhere? This seems like more of an "analyst" task to me.

bryanrasmussen 7y ago

hmm, but rereading you are right someone could implement this without knowing about the secret deal, but different people are different and I have definitely worked with people who would say "why this" and then "business wants it", "hmm, that only makes sense if X or Y", heck I might even do it sometimes just trying to think about why things are put together the way they are - but you're right, some people won't, so maybe the developers who implemented it all never stopped to think "but why?"