Anticlue

Where is the local Anonymous Neologists Group?

Neologism refers to meaningless words used by a psychotic, unfortunately yesterday I was playing the role of the psychotic. Having always played the role of technician, I know probably most of the computer acronyms and jargon. Now I’m playing the role of project manager, business analyst, and technician. Yesterday, I was doing the business analyst part working with the case managers deriving integrated testing scenarios for testing the new system. This implementation is the first for our Case Department to actively partake in and derive scenarios. It is a new experience for them, and I’d like it to be a learning experience, and introduction into the magical art of implementing a system, working with technology. However there is the difference, to me it is a magical mystical art that I truly enjoy, to them it is time wasted from doing their real job taking care of patients and ensuring they don’t go broke or are ill cared for during their stay with us. Terms like integrated testing, what is your workflow, what requirements do we want to test, all resulted in the most horrific blank stares.

It made me reminiscent of my previous boss, who left for greener pastures. She was a clinician and she was able to talk the lingo. I got there eventually by remembering how she used to play interpreter between me and the clinicians. Integrated testing transformed into we just want to see if all the parts work together this time and laid out the parts. I got to learn about pre-admission reviews, concurrent reviews, carve out days, the difference between acute and ALC. They got to learn, that their world is apart of the enterprise, not a silo anymore