Tag Archives: IT Management

If I’m researching e-governance applicability for www.doctoroncall.org

doconcall Does that make me an electronic health records system technologist? Or a medical records system researcher? I wonder.

Simply put, Doctor On Call is a blend between a electronic health records system and a e-Triage system. This is in fact the first of it’s kind in India that offers true niche benefits.

The service coverage is:

  1. Electronic medical records systems
  2. Emr systems (to help maintain the software medical records)
  3. Naturally free e-Triage would be included for all participants of the programme, which is one of the key benefits of ehr (and emr, but a little different for both).

Interestingly the organization does not offer electronic medical software, but instead focuses on ehealth services – what I would call a more ‘wholesome’ approach.

I will be posting updates on what happens with this over a period of time as my research unravels. Keep reading!

Risk Management

IMHO, I would classify risk management as “very subjective”.

Consider a website development project that has been funded, and is estimated to take 100 man hours (approx 13 man-days) and has a team of 3 people working on it – a project manager and 2 developers (approx 5-6 man-days per person).

* Now it’s upto the project manager to ensure there is no financial/expense risk by bidding high enough

* Ensure there’s no time risk by padding the delivery timeline quote adequately. Also in the event there is an illness, power outage, etc

* There has to be a time buffer. There have to be measures like maybe a UPS or medication (maybe flu medication if flu season is around)

Sometimes its possible one team member is suddenly not able to perform – job change, accident, death – anything. The project manager is responsible to ensure this capacity is filled and the limitation (maybe training of the new entree) here is overcome. Overall, a good risk management policy is one that helps reduce the focus on risk from 80% to 20%.

If you keep good power backup, additional on-call employees, medication on hand, your risk to manpower loss is limited – and you spend less time trying to wrap up that end of the spectrum. Likewise if you have bid high enough to cover your expenses you have less trouble there – and you dont need to either be in a hurry or re-quote or otherwise risk your reputation on deliverability.

I dont think it’s possible to eliminate risk 100%. I figure a re-iterative 80-20 process (just like we use for quality management in 6 sigma) would be the most functional and effective.

But then again – to each their own. This is MY belief and methodology. If you find this of use and wish to publish or write about it feel free; I’m happy to elaborate more and provide much more detail; I would just like to know where it is and have my name mentioned on it in a wee corner.

BUT YOU’RE IN A FULL TIME JOB!! HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITH YOURSELF??

I’m asked this every other day by people I meet – specially because they confuse “VCIO” and the website www.vcio.in and my blog cbd.vcio.in and me.

To be quite frank I’m tired of it. So after a long hibernation (to seek the truth, etc etc) I come with enlightenment.

1. I’m still very much an IT Manager

2. I’m NOT a VCIO. Yet. But I will be, after I stop working full time. But not yet.

3. I’m working full time and legally; well within boundries of my agreements. I wouldnt be a very good VCIO (in the far future) if I didnt adhere to the legal system now would I….

This blog is about me and my exploits. The website www.vcio.in was put up a long, long time ago. No I’ve not updated it. It’s a personal site and selling nothing – so I’m not planning on taking it down…. so I can live with myself just fine…

-C