Reuters is reporting on an study which states that electronic medical records are no better than paper records. This leads me to think about when I first started in this computer business. Back then, people thought about whether an application would make work easier. In fact, computers were first developed to help with computing sums that were so long and tedious. We take it for granted that access to data and the internet is revolutionizing our world.
I think that's true. But we seem to have stopped asking the question -- does everything need a computer, a program, an application, a system? And I think that is part of the job if we want to create Quality Software. It applies to the process we use to make the software -- the effort it takes to populate the data, to maintain the data, to secure the data.
