[Gnumed-devel] Re: Vision and implications: Strategic planning: Goal-setting

[J Busser]

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If people wish to reply with a related but separate issue, suggest (per Richard) they change the thread to

        Vision and implications: <something else>

So far we have

        Vision and implications: Free/Libre and Open Source

        Vision and implications: Strategic planning <--- (general)

        Vision and implications: Strategic planning: Goal-setting

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At 11:32 AM -0800 12/17/05, J Busser wrote:

> A vision could be
> > a comprehensive scalable software solution for paperless
> > medical practice with emphasis on privacy protection, secure
> > patient-centric record sharing, decision support and ease of
> > use.

Each of these pieces will be worth better describing / defining / understanding if we are to fit the vision together with a strategic plan. Do we operationalize these in absolute terms, or relative to what else is otu there? e.g. does "affordable" mean cheaper than everything else? Does it mean "costs less than 5% of your operating budget"? Where do we "set the bar" for the following:

- affordable

- reliable

- comprehensive

- interoperable

- scalable

- privacy protection

- secure patient-centric record sharing

- decision support and

- ease of use.

Oh, by the way, is any part of the vision be that GNUmed be *actually used* by people? Presumably that should be among our goals, and how we define success. We are hopefully not just doing this to look at it :-)  Also, another of our goals is for the project and the software to be sustainable (at least until such time as there is something so much better, or convergence, that we be true to principle and leave GNUmed to die a noble death and support anything that we truly think is able to do a better job, if that should come along.