David Guest wrote: > It will be nice if, at the end of the NEHTA process, that someone > somewhere has written some software. I don't take that as a given.
David, I fear that you have correctly divined the cunning plan which a worldwide cabal of health informaticians is conspiring to foist upon an unsuspecting world. The first step of the plan involves replacing all software programming activity which results in actual, executable code with endless revision and refinement of frameworks and architectures, and if overly-concrete people really insist, with some high level logical software design work. But actual cutting of software code will be strictly forbidden, or at least heavily deprecated and taken as a sign of backyard amateurism. Good progress is being made towards this goal. When complete, there will no longer be any role for the computer as we currently know it in health informatics. Instead, theoretical packets of synthetic patient information, all perfectly conformant to a set of standards which will be available from SAI Global for $17,345 for the complete set (minus federal govt subsidy of $212), will be exchanged using an oh-so-elegant Service Oriented Architecture through a handful of theoretically secure messaging service providers which charge just $0.10 per notional message. The putative information contained in these notional messages will be stored, with perfect interoperability, in provably-correct EHR systems. Storage of actual, real-life health information in these hyper-rigorous EHRs will no longer be possible as no human will be capable of generating data of sufficient internal consistency to be accepted by them. Nirvana! <wink> Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
