Hi Andrew,
Put that way I can't but agree...the Government should just get the thing cancelled IMVHO..its an obstructive little obscenity and has no merit - given the obvious prior art we all know about - as far as I am concerned.
Who do the PG exactly think they are? e-Health is tottery enough in OZ without this sort of stuff
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 Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:57:03 +1000, Andrew Patterson wrote:
>> I take the view if the Pharmacy Guild was getting in the Government's way on this...they would get squashed legally...take it from me if they disagree with
>> you, you get to know about it big time!
>>
>
> David,
>
> It is true that the guild would be unlikely to take on the government in a patent fight. From memory, at the time they insisted that they were not interested
> in asserting the rights against any government program. But I'd be more concerned about the negative effects it might have on independant software companies -
> for instance, what about if Medical Objects wanted to extend their program to allow shared medical records (say some limited shared info for Team Care
> arrangments with messages going back and forth between the providers).. might they fall within the sights of the
> guilds crappy patent? Is it fair on them to have to put the money up to show how invalid the patent is?
>
> I still think the way forward with electronic health stuff is going to come from small companies doing innovative things ala Argus, MO etc (rather than any
> blessed government program
> like HealthConnect) and its they who have the most to fear from a fight with the guild.
>
> It would be nice for the guild to state what their intentions are with the patent.
>
> Andrew
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