On Sunday 24 September 2006 6:48 pm, Ian Haywood wrote: > I think our situation is a group of clinicians who want to see an > open-source EHR in Australia, > with some idealism, but largely for solid pragmatic reasons, who can > either wait a very, very long time > for Government/Divisions/vendors to 'do something' or take the > initiative ourselves (I agree this > in no way preclude a formal structure coming in later)
I don't think governments should dictate the software and I don't think it is up to "us" to write the programs, but if someone (I guess it comes back to governments) set the standard ( These are the database fields- you must conform to them) then the softwares would be a degree of magnitude more open. jh -- Cruelly deprived, I don't know how you've survived Romantic theories of the pixies and fairies Looking in retrospect seldom wrong but never correct Emotions are aired like carpets out to dry Split Enz - Sweet Dreams (P Judd) _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
