At 10:55 pm +1000 12/5/06, Andrew McIntyre wrote:
Hello Hugh,
You have hit the nail on the head. Apathy everywhere. Non standard
messages, applications unable to import standard messages, users happy
with the situation. That's why I suggested asking for standards based
ones and they insisting they are imported properly.
[...]
No its not "apathy". It's "business".
Compliance with annything imposed from outside cost money.
Corporations tend not to do that unless it will lose them money by
not.
Presently, there is no loss.
When there is legislation or regulation, corporations will jump hoops
to comply fastest.
The worst apathy is from the regulators, who keep thinking of excuses
not to regulate. Would there be any opposition to legislation???
Probably not much I can think of.
Interoperability stuff is in HIPAA legislation. A few years ago we
were way ahead of the USA. Now, We could be left in the dust....
And nobody will ever know of the apathy that caused it.
20 years ago, Qld Health bureaucrats got rid of most of the medically
qualified administrators in top positions. Now we see the fallout.
Ian.
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