About NHT
NHT has been established by one of the founding directors of InferMed
Limited (www.infermed.com) to bring the power of the Arezzo® technology, which
supports and liberates human reasoning rather than trying to constrain it
with a series of flow charts, to
the non-healthcare sector for the first time.
Why NHT?
In Irish mythology nine hazelnuts fell into the pool of wisdom where
they were eaten by a salmon which then became the Salmon of Knowledge. It was said whomsoever ate first of this
fish would become the wisest man in Ireland. The fish was caught by a poet Finnegas,
who was at the time teaching the hero Finn Macool. Finn was set to look after the fish
whilst it was cooking but told not to eat it. Unfortunately for Finnegas, Finn burnt
his thumb on the cooking fish and sucking it was enough for him to gain the
wisdom of the fish. Thereafter when
he had a big decision to make he only had to suck his thumb to chose
wisely. Knowledge transfer in
action!
In the Irish alphabet all letters have proper names and that for the
letter ‘c’ is Coll which means Hazel.
The company logo is the letter ‘c’ in the ogham script which was used on
wood and stone in early Irish monuments. The graphics are the Irish CAD (What), CEN UAIR (When) and CEN FATH (Why)
Why Arezzo?
The Arezzo® software is named after Guido of Arezzo, the inventor of modern
musical notation. Prior to its invention, music had to be passed on orally from
one choir master to another and naturally error would creep in. With a standard notation it was possible
to eradicate the error in transmission of the complicated processes required to
perform a piece of music. Notation
thus allowed complex music to become reproducible more widely. However, a
musical score still requires expertise in order to be able to perform it. The
same is true with Arezzo applications they do not de-skill but instead allow the
user to concentrate on the human elements (the art) of a
process.
Arezzo® is a commercial implementation of the PROforma modeling language
developed by Prof John Fox http://www.cossac.org/people/johnfox whilst at Cancer Research UK.
1. Arezzo is a
trademark of InferMed limited (www.infermed.com)
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Hazelnuts Technology Limited 2010