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Reflections of a white haired Remote GP

Software Design is an arcane subject, a long way from the day to day practice of Health Practitioners. Yet we all use computer systems – indeed they are central to our day to day practice. Good Health IT design is important to efficiency, work satisfaction and Clinical Safety, yet it appears not to be considered…

Open Source Software – A Paradox

The nuts and bolts of Software – Intellectual Property The code running in the myriad of computers in the world is called object code . This is a series of low level commands read sequentially from memory that tell the computer processor what to do. These are in assembly language which is completely unintelligible to…

by Richard Hosking May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

Complexity and Software Design

(Why Large IT Projects Fail) From the literature and the cases above it is apparent that large IT system deployments fail more often than not, and are almost never completely delivered. Is there a fundamental reason for this? Large IT projects are certainly complex in the conventional sense. Bar-Yam (ref) argues that they are also…

by Richard Hosking May 10, 2022May 10, 2022