john hilton wrote:
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.
I would be happy for government to set the standards, as long as the standards are developed in conjunction with our professional organisations and medical software providers (commercial and non-commercial), and those professional organisations and software providers agree to the proposed standards. What we don't need is a bunch of government bureaucrats who are not GPs sitting around, consulting secretly with expensive non GPs, and then trying to dictate standards for which there is not widespread support or which are unworkable. NEHTA is working on standards, but I haven't yet seen anything come out of NEHTA that seems very relevant to general practice informatics. Ian Cheong and others who are better acquainted with NEHTA's activities may be able to tell us if I am wrong about this.
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