Hi Greg,
My estimate is that the CCHIT has cost very little (about $US5.0M so far).
Also remember it was started by the private sector - and only after it got going the the US government give it $US7.5M over 3 years.
Will and skills matter I reckon - the money is secondary in this case.
Details in my blog.
Cheers
David
---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:32:20 +1000, Greg Twyford wrote:
> Tim Churches wrote:
>> David More wrote:
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> Not quite what Enrico has in mind - but better than nothing - as largely functionally based - ie must detect interactions etc.
>>>
>>> The US only started this effort about a year ago..so I wonder why all the claims it is too hard to do.
>>>
>>
>> It seems (to me) that there is an article of faith amongst health
>> informaticians that it is really hard to do things. Also that it will
>> cost a lot of money. "Things" and "it" refer to any and every health
>> informatics-related project ever done or contemplated by anyone, anywhere.
>>
> Tim,
>
> I think that you're making an overstatement.
>
> It seems to me that the key to what has happened in the US is that
> government there has listened to someone and acted.
>
> Now that's often hard to achieve.
>
> Lots of things do cost serious money, and there are several recent
> instances of AHS not collaborating on good projects for lack of it.
>
> The reporting framework for divisions that will involve us in data
> extraction has no money for divisions, so where will the qualified
> people to mess with practices' computer systems come from?
>
> Greg
>
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