Re: New Sydney Healthscope Hospital
JIT for a hospital does not sound a very good idea at all regardless of implementation. Especially if that is apparently involving medical supplies.
A factory running out of materials is expensive, and annoying but is not life and death.
Medicine is a great source of what may be "characterised" as unpredictable workloads in their speak. It is not a production line, like the delivery of toilet roll or catering supplies. I certainly would not want to be the one saying, "sorry madam we couldn't save him, the supplies needed were stuck on the motorway"
Sounds to me like the model is doomed to fail regardless of software and comes right back to poor management decisions.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
