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Marcel

Any chance of a link to the MHRA recommendation? We are about to lumbered with Backtraq FM.

Dicky

Dicky, Mate ... how can your people even think about that ... when you know there are better options available!

Why not follow the lead of some other well-known hospitals, and develop your own? There are enough people around willing to help (you see them all regularly enough on this very forum)!

For Heaven's Sake!

Dicky
The advice appears in a re-draft of a very old document:
DB0901 Medical Device & Equipment Management for Hospital and Community Based Organisations.
In the re-draft the pages are coded not numbered since the document is I think still having its contents shuffled around.
Table "G1" on page "G2" states among other things regarding computer databases:
"Flexibilty: With purpose-written software it is often hard to obtain any outputs except those planned when the system was set up. Proprietary relational databases will alllow flexible searches."
"Stability: A database on a single computer or a very small network is much less likely to be unavailable due to system crashes than one on a large unstable network."
Below that table it says among other things:
"It is better to have a limited computer based system which is wholly reliable and up to date than a more sophisticated one holding a mass of corrupt or obsolete data."

They are moving towards advising us to keep it simple, but as usual still gripping that fence tightly with their behinds.

Marc

What's this, Marc ... good, practical, common-sense advice from the MHRA? It's to be applauded, then!

In my experience (setting aside, if we can, the small matter of the egos of some in senior management), it's always better to:-

Do something simple rather than do nothing complicated!

Geoff

Doesn't the term "lumbered" give you some inkling as to our opinion here?

Marc

Thanks for the reference,will bring it to the attention of the relevant parties (not that I expect it to make one bit of difference.

Oh yes, Mate ... we feel your pain.

However, as gesture of goodwill, I'm prepared to do you a simple stand-alone system, to your own requirements, for cost plus 10%.

That way you can carry on working at your accustomed efficiency, regardless of whatever extraneous system is imposed upon you. Can't be fairer than that!