Dear Oliver & list, It may be time to update the axiom that ArgusConnect is non-partisan.
Ross Davey wrote on 31/8/2005: "AAPP, who were on the brink of wholesale private pathology industry support of Argus, (because it demonstrated the best opportunity to immediately start communicating with GPs in a non-partisan manner), have backed-off and are reviewing their support for Argus." Tom Bowden wrote on 25/4/2006: "Lets not dwell on the fact that Argus has been (until recently when understandably they've gotten cold feet) bankrolled by a large corporate that sits on your board." Since the Sonic CFO joined the ArgusConnect board (public knowledge via a paid ASIC search), ArgusConnect (and let's face it, Argus) is going to be strongly commercially influenced..or is that influenced commercially? :) I put forward that this is one of the reasons why the AAPP chose not to endorse it. IMHO, as I've said before, the pathology healthIT comms industry is mature and working. There's very little value in turning a well working health sector (pathology communications) on it's ear by throwing out existing practices/technology and forcing GPs, Labs, Vendors etc to do the same work in a different way (a la IHE document registries or Argus's proposal). There is very little extra benefit or drivers to replace a working sector. Discharge summaries and other green/brownfields areas where there is little electronic communication or a greater need for interoperability is another story altogether. NeHTA has started to set the direction of health communications, and the HL7 Australia forum was one where all vendors had a chance to speak and contribute. We consider ArgusConnect as a peer COMMERCIAL player who gave a presentation amongst all the other commercial players' presentations. There are many interoperable methodologies, technologies and structures that could be implemented, but a good stepping stone (if successful) are the NeHTA building block projects. Regards, Gavan --------- Gavan Lim-Joon Chief Technology Officer, eClinic Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.eclinic.com.au (03) 9381 4567 x106 / 040 234 8186 > Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:10:53 +0930 > From: "Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [GPCG_TALK] How is Argus going after the apparent crisis in > August 2005? > To: "GPCG Talk List (E-mail)" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Ross Davey wrote on 31/8/2005: > > The pronouncements of NeHTA regarding messaging standards and > "Web services' have severely impacted the confidence of > significant stakeholders in Argus such that it now threatens > Argus's future. > > Firstly AAPP, who were on the brink of wholesale private > pathology industry support of Argus, (because it demonstrated > the best opportunity to immediately start communicating with > GPs in a non-partisan manner), have backed-off and are > reviewing their support for Argus. > > *** > > Ian Cheong wrote to this list on 1/9/2005: > > Since Argus has had significant public funding, NeHTA should > be pushing Argus and the single Commonwealth rep on the NeHTA > board has the power to do this if they so desire. > > *** _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
