Regardless of the agents (public or private) behind it, a better health care IT infrastructure is rather desperately needed - at least in Canada. If my partner's experience as an ER nurse is any indication, there is a fair amount of duplication and waste, and a not-insignificant contribution to the ER mortality rate, caused by the lack of a central electronic repository of patient data.
Maybe this will help:
http://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/home/home.aspx
We'll see.
Successful unions usually do all they can to ensure everybody in their fields joins them, and those who don't get no work. I deal with unions all the time and often they are worse than the mafia. In many places, you can't hold a job for long or get promoted if you don't join the union and obey. In short, they behave like every other self-interested economic entity, no? Sorry to break it to you, but that's what freedom of association is about. Why is it that when unions use every legal tool at their disposal to advance their interests to the limit that they can, people get all whiny and outraged, and yet when X business interest does the same thing, it's defended as the natural and wholesome workings of a free market? Bitch and heap scorn on people if you want, but it is really just envy, isn't it? You'd do EXACTLY the same thing, and you'd be silly not to.
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Regardless of the agents (public or private) behind it, a better health care IT infrastructure is rather desperately needed - at least in Canada. If my partner's experience as an ER nurse is any indication, there is a fair amount of duplication and waste, and a not-insignificant contribution to the ER mortality rate, caused by the lack of a central electronic repository of patient data. Maybe this will help: http://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/home/home.aspx We'll see.