Conversations with Consultants: Dr F the physician

Consultants experience of requirements elicitation conversations - An empirical model

Research continues to show that poor requirements elicitation leads to costly information systems failure. We also know that the most Information can be obtained by a consultant conducting conversations with clients. Research was conducted into consultants’ experience of these conversations. Twenty professionals involved in these conversations were interviewed and Phenomenographic analysis of a...

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Dr. A. F. Winnington-Ingram

"Dr. Kildare" stereotype undermines physician recruitment.

A though healthcare is undergoing a profound transformation, certain attitudes related to it seem set in stone. One is the lingering belief of some hospital and health network administrators that the only acceptable physician candidates are male, U.S. trained, under 45 , blond haired, and blue eyed. Client insistence on exclusionary candidate parameters is a challenge physician recruiters deal ...

Should the financial link between industry and physician consultants be severed?

T a i I e c c h m T c i b t p g Conflicts of interest come about when one must choose between two or more options that are inompatible. In medicine, they usually relate to choices etween serving the interests of patients directly or ndirectly versus serving one’s own interests, which ight be career related or financial. A particularly conroversial area lies in the relations between physicians n...