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Originally Posted by Nehkara

I should have worded it better.

What I meant was that many many places around the world get this kind of system to work beautifully.

We spend tons and tons of money and it is not even adequate. We need more hospitals, more beds, more doctors, more nurses, and more of almost every other health care professional. The system is inadequate and still eats up enormous amounts of money.

That kind of financial mismanagement is amazing given the conservatives are supposedly financial wizards.

Alberta Health Services is very very management-heavy. There is TONS of management... tons and tons of people in management who are redundant and not required. Something needs to be done to streamline the management of the AHS and bring in additional accountability to the people at the top.

Projects are also horribly managed within the AHS. For example, our current system for creating reports for diagnostic imaging procedures (MRI, CT, X-ray, Ultrasound) is called TALK. Before it was brought in, there were no consultations done with the people who would be using it, there was seemingly no research of the available systems that exist that might be better, and it performs so poorly that its introduction had to be delayed for 4 years while it was fixed and then once it was introduced it failed again and had to be delayed another 6 months. It is vastly inferior to the system that came before it and it nearly doubled the workload in my job. The company that makes this software had no previous experience in making any kind of software of this type so it was likely the cheapest and worst option and is incredibly cost-ineffective due to production hours lost.

/rant over again

The majority of government funding is eaten up by existing labour agreements and inflation, said board chairman Ken Hughes, who called Alberta's spending "out of whack."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1203023/

Sounds to me like the problem lies with labor costs associated with labour agreements (union contracts with staff).... not mismanagement.