“All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end.” (Thoreau)
Tsays:
My other primary concern in the same vein is the ease with which digital bodies of text can be edited after publishing. There are many cases already of online posts being removed, but also of news articles being edited without acknowledging the change. Thus, what is true 5 minutes ago for one reader can be false for the next reader with a few button clicks.
In the past, publishers would need to publish retractions in the following issue, but those previous issues did not simply disappear.
It’s not just that: think of the well-known stance “release early, release often”!
Being aware that a published “work” can easily be edited, completed, reviewed, corrected, patched, … any later time, someone might be (tempted to) release unfinished “work”
An excellent point.
You can comment to support a point of view in an article and later the article can be changed while your name still supports it.
The editors/platforms should update all the commenters about the change with a link to edit their comments.
Wessays:
All of healthcare software is exactly this: regulating to the finest point what providers do, and why: if their justifications in the form of required tests, etc. are insufficient, their action is blocked.
People don’t realize the extend to which computer systems in healthcare have been used to usurp the power of professional organizations and judgment. Try spending a day or a week where 80% of your time is documenting via arcane pull-down menus that don’t have the option you want. Smart, committed people who invested a decade in training are giving up and leaving the field.
There’s little evidence for improved patient outcomes or lower costs, and lots of evidence for higher administrative costs.
For french speaking people, Benjamin Bayart describes this as
“L’ordinateur est fatal”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOWeewlc2CE
It starts at about 3:00 and IMHO, it’s quite funny excepted when you’re confronted to it.
“All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end.” (Thoreau)
My other primary concern in the same vein is the ease with which digital bodies of text can be edited after publishing. There are many cases already of online posts being removed, but also of news articles being edited without acknowledging the change. Thus, what is true 5 minutes ago for one reader can be false for the next reader with a few button clicks.
In the past, publishers would need to publish retractions in the following issue, but those previous issues did not simply disappear.
Nice point.
It’s not just that: think of the well-known stance “release early, release often”!
Being aware that a published “work” can easily be edited, completed, reviewed, corrected, patched, … any later time, someone might be (tempted to) release unfinished “work”
An excellent point.
You can comment to support a point of view in an article and later the article can be changed while your name still supports it.
The editors/platforms should update all the commenters about the change with a link to edit their comments.
All of healthcare software is exactly this: regulating to the finest point what providers do, and why: if their justifications in the form of required tests, etc. are insufficient, their action is blocked.
People don’t realize the extend to which computer systems in healthcare have been used to usurp the power of professional organizations and judgment. Try spending a day or a week where 80% of your time is documenting via arcane pull-down menus that don’t have the option you want. Smart, committed people who invested a decade in training are giving up and leaving the field.
There’s little evidence for improved patient outcomes or lower costs, and lots of evidence for higher administrative costs.
Another sad incarnation of “Computer says no”:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Computer_says_no
For french speaking people, Benjamin Bayart describes this as
“L’ordinateur est fatal”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOWeewlc2CE
It starts at about 3:00 and IMHO, it’s quite funny excepted when you’re confronted to it.