The current challenge facing Healthcare is not so much a clinical problem; rather, the challenge is a business problem. As an industry, Healthcare stands far behind its counterpart's ability to retrieve and report clinical and business data for a multitude of reasons.
This presentation will use this extra-ordinary setting to explore some of the ways in which Smalltalk is well suited to create an internal Domain Specific Language (DSL) that can enable Healthcare organizations to overcome the following obstacles:
- Minimal development staff
- Constantly changing reporting requirements
- Technically challenged workforce
Finally, we will discuss the emergence of the excellent tools available (such as Squeak and Aida) which makes the creation of such DSL's possible for ordinary programmers willing to take the plunge.
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