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I looked at this as I wondered if I was being messed with or sent up in some way.
Being a person of late adult age I then started to wonder just what I, or anyone else, would want a “badge” for and who on earth would want to send me one?
Surely the AIDH has better things to do with its time and money than be promoting these absurd and irrelevant badges!
I really hope this ‘initiative’ dies a painless and quick death and that the AIDH can go back o doing more useful things! It is really the worst example of imported US cultural clap-trap I have seen in a good while!
David - the utterly gobsmacked by a strange outbreak of corporate insanity and egotistical self-aggrandisement!
D.
13 comments:
What a load of childish rubbish. It has more in common with playschool than healthcare.
Lucky ducky you David. What badge of honor did you get?
I am just a boring FAIDH which I got from being a FACHI for ages when the Institute formed!
David.
It's a classic bit of American marketing hype. It feeds egos, makes people feel more competent and more important than they really are. It allows them to self-flagellate in public, to suddenly feel powerful and special, capable of doing anything. The future of digital health is clearly under the influence of silly egotistical incompetents.
Let's face it The health IT industry thrives on an unhealthy mix of "the health system is collapsing", "it must be fixed urgently", "only digital health can fix the health system", "marketing hype and sales hype sucks massive dollars out of multiple health budgets", and organizations like ADHA and AIDH have mastered the art of constantly pouring petrol on the fire and Joe Consumer's taxes pay for all this uncontrolled profligacy. Does anyone really disagree?
The health IT industry is only half the story. The other half are the managers and politicians who believe them. Healthcare is far more complex than finance but these naive managers and politicians think that just because IT works well for banks etc, that it should also work with healthcare.
Talking about rubbish, form today's SMH:
MyGov, myHeadache
Thank you, Steve Meacham, for expressing so well the dog’s breakfast MyGov is ("MyGov is a dog’s breakfast, and I’m stuffed", smh.com.au, November 5).
I have worked with computers for over 40 years, from software testing to specifying and designing requirements for local and global systems, and never have I seen a more difficult-to-use website.
Please, dump the MyGov rubbish asap and set up a new user-friendly system.
Victor Marshall, Meander (Tas)
He obviously hasn't tried MyHR or Centrelink - more dog's breakfasts.
Oh, I nearly forgot - Robo-debt, launched by that kindhearted Christian, Scott Morrison in 2015, in spite of being advised of its illegality.
The failure to deliver its $3.9billion in savings puts it on a par with MyHR.
David, I agree with you on the AIDH badges. I received one and wondered what it was. I notice a proliferation of these across LinkedIn. For me, it cheapens informatics as a profession. AIDH has turned this into a commodity, a bit like so many do with agile - for a fee, we will make your people AIDH. You now have to keep up your membership, or you are stripped of your dignity and banished from the church of informatics, all hail AIDH.
It certainly downgraded its perceived prestige. Why spend years learning the craft when you can buy you expertise. Will we get reward cards soon David? I am hoping to say digital health enough next year to earn enough for a Christmas hamper
Seems the idea has fizzled and become irrelevant within two weeks. At least they are consistent.
@10:24 AM What do you mean by "the idea has fizzled"?
Surely you don't mean that the AIDH badges have been withdrawn?
There is no notice to that effect on the AIDH website.
If they have been withdrawn - do I have to return my badge or can I keep wearing it? Can I swap it with someone else for a higher level one? Do they have a market value, like gold bullion? Are they better than holding shares on the ASX?
"Seems the idea has fizzled and become irrelevant" - surely not, it was such a marvelous way of giving people a post nominal so they could feel like they had done the hard yards to earn their 'degree' and look like doctors or some other professional.
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