http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/03/better-healthcare-with-emrs.html Just another weblog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:42:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/03/better-healthcare-with-emrs.html#comment-332 Duncan Bath Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:23:42 +0000 http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/03/better-healthcare-with-emrs.html#comment-332 Health Care involves 'jillions' of pieces of paper (records). Hardly a single one of them is worth keeping if it does not have a date on it. Unfortunately (or otherwise) such dates are often expressed in obscure or ambiguous ways. Eg. would 01/04/09 refer to the first of January of 2009 or, might it be April Fool's Day? Or might it have happened in 2001 (forget 1901)? It seems to me that the IT fraternity (and IBM has connections with IT) seems to take no responsibility to the weeding out of ad hoc date forms in favor of the international standard (ISO 8601) date form. Where does IBM stand on this issue? Duncan Health Care involves ‘jillions’ of pieces of paper (records). Hardly a single one of them is worth keeping if it does not have a date on it.
Unfortunately (or otherwise) such dates are often expressed in obscure or ambiguous ways. Eg. would 01/04/09 refer to the first of January of 2009 or, might it be April Fool’s Day? Or might it have happened in 2001 (forget 1901)?
It seems to me that the IT fraternity (and IBM has connections with IT) seems to take no responsibility to the weeding out of ad hoc date forms in favor of the international standard (ISO 8601) date form.
Where does IBM stand on this issue?
Duncan

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