What's interesting in this article to me is the clinical services community acting like a nepotistic clique. "There aren't enough skilled people". Bullshit. Ev

What's interesting in this article to me is the clinical services community acting like a nepotistic clique. "There aren't enough skilled people". Bullshit. Every industry has it's specialist knowledge. That should be some degree be irrelevant to the IT community building their support tools. Not in the fact that the needs of that community shouldn't be taken care of, but that the IT folks don't need to be experts in whatever it is they are building for. We should be experts in discovering the needs of our clients whatever their industry, helping them figure out what would reaally make them more efficient need and building that. The idea that medical IT requires some kind of special half doctor half programmer half ninja to get anything done is repulsive. My mother worked for 30 years managing the medical library for hospital which treats around 70,000 people a year. The number of half-baked crap-tastical systems I saw dumped on her was astounding. I for one would like to see this as a time where the needs of clinicians can be standardized away from these lock-in vendors. Open the opportunities to companies that will supply modern, well thought-out solutions.