2012-07-12
2012-06-20
Impressions on polish healthcare IT
Well... it is damn sad and painfuly true that polish healthcare IT in XXI century (both staff, infrastructure and management) is still pretty lame...
The IT staff
Form my work experience in Poland the IT guys in hospitals are the most incompenent and most unpleasant kind of people. That is provided there are any, because there is often networking/database infrastructure that runs there by itself without much care or supervision (apart from some less ignorant doctors, who at least do backups (sometimes)).
Medical systems (databases)
Form my obsevation (however I'm not that much of an insider) there are almost as many different systems (like databases + applications) as there are hospitals * their departments. There is no consistency and no interoperability. These systems often don't even talk to each other despite standards like HL7, DICOM or even good old plain CSV. And a lot is "stored" on paper only (not also but only).
(Even more) Painful reality
Recently I've spent 7h waiting just to have a simple medical procedure performed on me.
They said it was going to be up to 4h wait, finally it took 7h, while the procedure itself took only 15 min.
Of which good several minutes was simply filling the paperwork. And it was filled on paper!
Also I was told I can't have the procedure performed by laryngologist without first having referral from first contact doctor. Why would I need a doctor to tell me that my ear is deaf? I know it alredy because I can't hear... Guess what? The only way to get help "quickly" was to go to the ER.
What a load of crap!
The IT staff
Form my work experience in Poland the IT guys in hospitals are the most incompenent and most unpleasant kind of people. That is provided there are any, because there is often networking/database infrastructure that runs there by itself without much care or supervision (apart from some less ignorant doctors, who at least do backups (sometimes)).
Medical systems (databases)
Form my obsevation (however I'm not that much of an insider) there are almost as many different systems (like databases + applications) as there are hospitals * their departments. There is no consistency and no interoperability. These systems often don't even talk to each other despite standards like HL7, DICOM or even good old plain CSV. And a lot is "stored" on paper only (not also but only).
(Even more) Painful reality
Recently I've spent 7h waiting just to have a simple medical procedure performed on me.
They said it was going to be up to 4h wait, finally it took 7h, while the procedure itself took only 15 min.
Of which good several minutes was simply filling the paperwork. And it was filled on paper!
Also I was told I can't have the procedure performed by laryngologist without first having referral from first contact doctor. Why would I need a doctor to tell me that my ear is deaf? I know it alredy because I can't hear... Guess what? The only way to get help "quickly" was to go to the ER.
What a load of crap!
2012-03-30
2011-12-07
More color, more images
I do realize that so far almost nobody is reading this stuff...
But here you go:
Enter when ready
Input failure
Industrial spaces #1
But here you go:
Enter when ready
Input failure
Industrial spaces #1
2011-12-06
2011-10-13
Deadlines
Lines of dead (bodies)? Like layers of lawyers (dead?)...
I do not belive in deadlines, deadlines are to be crossed.
It will be ready when it is ready....
"How do you come up with these arbitrary numbers?" as one Rodney McKay asked in "Stargate Atlantis".
I do not belive in deadlines, deadlines are to be crossed.
It will be ready when it is ready....
"How do you come up with these arbitrary numbers?" as one Rodney McKay asked in "Stargate Atlantis".
2011-10-11
Well...
Sometimes it is hard not to be a webmaster - http://bbx.art.pl/
Especially when one wishes to help a friend...
Especially when one wishes to help a friend...
2011-08-31
Some announcements
1. Button Generator - soon there will be dutch and french translations available.
2. STAT4U - just started rewritting everything from scratch - so there will be v3.0.
3. Probably there will be OCOP v4.0 some time soon (beginning of the next year, I think).
4. I'll be taking some time to work on several new Android apps.
5. I'm quite dissapointed that almost 1 year of work on my Q4U E-learning System didn't turn to be instantly fruitful, but I'm not giving up just yet.
2. STAT4U - just started rewritting everything from scratch - so there will be v3.0.
3. Probably there will be OCOP v4.0 some time soon (beginning of the next year, I think).
4. I'll be taking some time to work on several new Android apps.
5. I'm quite dissapointed that almost 1 year of work on my Q4U E-learning System didn't turn to be instantly fruitful, but I'm not giving up just yet.
Things don't just disappear
if ("things don't just disappear" statement is true) then there's no such thing as /dev/null ;
2011-08-13
New challenges
This post will not be modest.
After I learned quite fast and from scratch some basics of Java and Android API and created two apps to test my new skills I found myself in situation where I suddenly have to change job. After 4.5 years, mind you.
I got new job in one day, but this time the project required knowledge of C++ and MS Visual Studio 2008.
Good thing I have Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" book! But so far I couldn't bring myself to really read it. It took one weekend of reading and bang! "I know kung fu. / Show me." as it was in The Matrix. Or quoting from Star Trek Voyager's EMH when he first got his mobile emitter "It's just another environment to me".
Friend of mine told me, that these two are one of the best paying languages to know. I avoided them for years. Not any more. Hello World! Here I come!
After I learned quite fast and from scratch some basics of Java and Android API and created two apps to test my new skills I found myself in situation where I suddenly have to change job. After 4.5 years, mind you.
I got new job in one day, but this time the project required knowledge of C++ and MS Visual Studio 2008.
Good thing I have Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" book! But so far I couldn't bring myself to really read it. It took one weekend of reading and bang! "I know kung fu. / Show me." as it was in The Matrix. Or quoting from Star Trek Voyager's EMH when he first got his mobile emitter "It's just another environment to me".
Friend of mine told me, that these two are one of the best paying languages to know. I avoided them for years. Not any more. Hello World! Here I come!
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