
email mhduncan@compuserve.com![]()
| Most frequently asked question: | Why did you leave medicine? |
| Most frequently given answer: | I have not left medicine! |
I spent ten years after qualifying in Medicine (University College Hospital Medical School, London, UK) working mostly in General Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry. My interest in Medical Informatics grew, as did my frustration over the chasm of incomprehension and unrealistic expectation between many medical information systems developers and their would-be user base.
To succeed, healthcare informatics systems must
Countless small victories are missed. Waiting until the perfect system arrives also achieves nothing.
Useful low cost scaleable applications can be designed and implemented which satisfy real requirements now! Increasingly versatile messaging standards allow small and large systems to communicate for mutual benefit.
I believe I have a valuable contribution to make but not in ten minutes a week between ward rounds. I work full time to achieve progress and founded Medical Object Oriented Software in 1998.
Kind regards, Malcolm