I mentioned babies in the blog title. Well my son Aengus joined us last Friday night. I have attached a picture of him here.
What is interesting is that there was very little interaction with computers through the pregnancy process. You have a huge manual file, which contains all your test results and all doctor comments. If that file is lost, so are you basically. Its amazing our health system runs on this ancient technology. What computers we did see looked to be running Windows 2000 or XP, and we're deathly slow. We were getting blood test results and they used telnet to get to a text based server, which only could hold results for a few months. So clearly a crappy AS400 on a garden shed somewhere!!
Would there not be a huge business there for the computerisation of hospital processes!
No comments:
Post a Comment