Joy, you have raised an important point. In the last month I received 3 requests to review ISPOR task force drafts on different subjects. All 3 have the word credibility in the subject. Those review requests are basically requests for information/feedback. I offer the following observation: Credibil...

Thanks to Tony, Joy, and Pras, there is sufficient material to make a first draft of our team ranking, To meet the deadlines posted on the wiki and allow the committee leaders to assemble those with other teams for the MSM-IMAG meeting I decided to post this today. Special thanks to Tony who nudged ...

Hi Everyone, Many are planning to attend the MSM-IMAG consortium meeting. I know that Ahmet and Lealem are preparing the presentation for the committee - I will let them to lead this discussion in the forum. However, I am interested in what other committee members had in mind. I know some are leadin...

Yes Joy, If you look at the meeting minutes you will find reference to this organization. I am a member of the organization and presented there this year in New Orleans. The members get to see the task force draft and get to send responses. I have engaged in multiple communications with the organiza...

Tony raised several points In his last two posts that I wish to comment on: First, the rules and guidelines this committee should publish should cover the scope of modeling and simulation in healthcare defined in the committee document. It should not be initially intentionally targeted to a specific...

Tony made major work on this topic. I do agree with his first selected rule formulation. Actually I think it is better defined than the text I suggested previously. Allow me to extend it a bit more by adding competition to the text: Use competition of multiple implementations to check and balance ea...

Hi Pras, If you noticed, I chose only 3 elements from the list. I was trying to get a ranking of all the rules. If every one of us picks only 3 we can quickly rank the best 10. It also makes us think harder what is really more important. I assume you ranked your list according to importance. If I am...

Hi Bill, You are pointing to a human dilemma. it seems that the clinician has many constraints imposed on them. And their opinions on what is the best path to take are split - you described a spectrum of voices. In such environment human perception and human feelings play a role just as cold reasoni...

Hi Bill, Is the issue user satisfaction? Or is it something else? Specifically to the problem you described in details, I can explain that the computer needs complete data in something that look like a table that should be filled completely. Even clicking through a big table takes time for the user ...

Hi Bill, Hi Ahmet, Yes, this is a very interesting subject, and thanks for starting the thread. First to Ahmet's point - EMR is data rather than a model. However, processing such data may be considered modeling. Modeling implies to me some sort of function or computational effort and although EMR re...