I must admit I think there should be a degree of regulation or standards
that software must meet to be able to be sold on the Australian Medical
market.
There are many bright spark IT people that really don't have a great
idea how their software is to be used at the coalface.
New innovations that seemed to be a good idea at the time came to
nought. A lot of programming energy can be expended on vapor to the
detriment of basic needs of doctors.
If there were some regulations at least that would guide the software
people in the direction that their software needs to aim.
Drug interaction databases need to be not dangerous (example a patient
being allergic to Bactrim but the doctor can happily prescribe Trimethoprim)
And software needs to be designed that data can be exported so that all
the other packages can pick it up if a software vendor goes out of business.
Some basic level of software regulation I think would be a great idea.
Perhaps NEHTA could look at this.
Dr John Van Dyck wrote:
Hi David,
Enjoy your wise reflections.
Will do it was only an attempt at humour based on the acronym not on
any content J
Sorry if it seemed in any way “irreverent” J I am continually amazed
by the number of acronyms one gets presented with each day.
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Hi John,
Go have a look at the site..I think if you look closely you be surprised.
Cheers
David
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 21:26:22 +1000, Dr John Van Dyck wrote:
> CCHIT does that translate as "shit"?? pardon my ignorance
>
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> At 5:36 pm +1000 8/7/06, David More wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Please go to www.cchit.org (if you haven't) and see how the yanks
are doing it..planned, reasonable and not too expensive for most
except the open-source
>> people - for whom I think there should be a fee exemption.
>>
>> Their style of effort would do much, if transferred here, to make
things better - not perfect..but a place to start building I reckon.
>>
>>
> In September 2005, HHS awarded CCHIT a three-year contract to develop
and evaluate certification criteria and create an inspection process
for HIT in three
> areas:
>
> * Ambulatory EHRs for the office-based physician or provider *
Inpatient EHRs for hospitals and health systems * The Network
components through which they
> interoperate and share information
>
> Given that they appear to be embarking on the beginning of this
journey, I look forward to the output of the process.
>
> The history in australia is well known.
>
>
> Ian.
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