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We are not a "believe me" kind of crowd last I checked. This is the kind of forum where many enjoy data and empiricism. Self-reflection on anecdata and personal
by 616c 7y ago
We are not a "believe me" kind of crowd last I checked. This is the kind of forum where many enjoy data and empiricism. Self-reflection on anecdata and personal bias is welcome as insightful when exploring data and interpretation.
As someone who vaguely works in healthcare, I have asked for journals that compare information systems management for public healthcare systems of different countries with different approaches and measuring outcomes. Contractors and US agency employees alike in my limited experience cannot point me to any, and this is the domain I am interested in. I am sure it will count in this crisis and countless others.
Do such periodicals exist? Anyone know?
When people say US or country X has a sucky healthcare system even computer scientists don't seem to care for scientific measurement of policy and supporting IT systems to do that a high level (ie US Medicare and Medicaid, for a small example, don't run themselves).
- gerland 7y agoAre we more of a "X is shit" crowd then? You cannot evaluate the health system based on the information management system itself. I would argue that you cannot evaluate HS on anything more than your anecdotal evidence. If you have a reliable model for HS then you pretty much have a model for the whole economy, since it's just so much intertwined. Last time I checked physics envy was still a thing. Deriving a functional model of HS from statistical data is a pipe dream since so much is based here on behaviour. I know that we have gone far with predicting behavours, but I would say that we are still not far enough. Also, I don't have any data to support it and I don't care.