Quote Originally Posted by smokey the elder View Post

Records in Pharma used to be strictly kept on paper; output from computers would be signed and dated and go into the permanent record. Someone had the bright idea to enable "electronic signatures" and this led to an invention of the devil called "21CFR Part 11". This rule, in existence for about 10 years or so, has probably cost my industry billions of dollars.

Caveat emptor!!
Boom shaka lakka?

Invention of the devil?

I just went to the first webpage that came back on it and I laughed. WTF was that all about!


LOL,

When the EMR started to come in, my company created the Ministry of the EMR, an super secret company cell, their only job was to speak in 'programming language' while you speak to them in English!

The EMR project is an interesting one. There are med tracking software packages, coding software, lab software, central service....and on and on.

As the need for tracking systems came about, you had 4-5 to choose from for each need. Most of them are 'companies' who are really twoguys who wrote the thing in their garage and sell it from the back seat of their cars.

Then the sys chosen had to be integrated into the Main System.

Hand it off to the IT people from the hosp and IT "people" from sys seller and pray.


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The next huge thing coming out of this is another Dot.com style boom in EMR sales and development. The winner will be the one that can design an Microsoft-Styled platform that can talk to any other system with the least amount of BS.

That is where the money will lie in the next 10 years.