Comment Re:Doctors (Score 1) 294
They think of it as something that is subsidiary to their role as caretakers, when it's actually central to it, as it is in pretty much any industry and they are completely in denial of that fact
This attitude from IT is exactly why the doctors are so obstinate. The constant barrage of geeks claiming that IT is the core of everything is the cause of most of the bad reception IT gets from doctors and other professionals.
You think IT is central to health care, and just as important as physicians? Well, there were hospitals and doctors long before there were computers. It's HEALTH CARE, and the central idea is to make sick people better. If the integrated systems or individual applications can't make a doctors job easier or more efficient, they will not be used. The problem isn't that doctors are stubborn jerks, it's that you aren't offering good enough products.
This kind of bullshit is one of the reasons I recently left IT after thirteen years as a software and systems engineer. For medicine, ironically enough, considering the topic.