Difference between revisions of "Octo Barnett's Ten Commandments"

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Octo Barnett 10 Commandments in Clinical Data Management

1) "Thou shall know what you want to do."

2) "Thou shall construct modular systems."

3) "Thou shall build a system that can evolve in a graceful fashion."

4) "Thou shall build a system that allows easy and rapid programming development and programming modification."

5) "Thou shall build a system that has a consistently rapid time response and is easy for the non‐ computernik to use."

6) "Thou shall have duplicate hardware systems."

7) "Thou shall build and implement your system as a joint effort with real users in a real situation with real problems."

8) "Thou shall be concerned with realities of the cost and projected benefit of the computer system."

9) "Innovation in computer technology is not enough; there must be an equal commitment to the potentials of radical change in other aspects of health care delivery, particularly those having to do with organization and manpower utilization. "

10) "Be optimistic about the future, supportive of good work that is being done, passionate in your commitment, but always be guided by a fundamental skepticism."