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Stimulus Avoids Serious Solutions For Health IT
ivaldes3 writes in to note his post up on Linux Medical News, pointing out the severe shortcomings of the Health IT provisions of the just-passed stimulus bill. "The government has authorized enough money to purchase EMR freedom for the nation. Instead the government appears set to double down on proprietary lock-down. The government currently appears poised to purchase serfdom instead of freedom and performance for patients, practitioners and the nation. An intellectual and financial servitude to proprietary EMR companies for little or no gain. A truly bad bargain."
The National Institutes of Health just announced the NIH Challenge Grants that is used for doling out stimulus money to small projects. In it they identified several high-priority topics, which if you look through, you will find includes Information Technology for Processing Health Care Data.
So there certainly is money available for this type of work. And for those not familiar with grant funding by the US government, the NIH is the single largest grant provider for the life science in the US.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
He has the same rant about proprietary applications without interchangeable data formats in the medical field that people have with MS Office. Health Systems are just as bad if not worse than the other closed proprietary systems that people here constantly rail about. It's very likely that you'll have to buy a special program to read the medical information that you get from your doctor. It's a closed silo system that won't get any better based on the new funding.