> project was seeded with public money > It would be interesting to know how much public money has gone into Argus. Knowing a little about Division funding, I would hazard a guess that this might have been around say $15,000 for 3 years.
Now, for all the public money that has been spent on health industry IT - quoted figures have been around $7m per year for GPCG and $8m per year for NeHTA - can anyone point to anything that has been achieved other than Argus. My suggestion is that the amount of public money that has gone into Argus is piddly compared to all that has gone into health IT. And that this piddly little amount has actually produced something worthwhile, many times moreso than whatever public money has gone into it. Now the poor bastards that have put all their time and effort into Argus need to make a buck ... That's how the world goes around. Let us GPs and specialists embrace Argus. Put it on our servers and desktops ... It costs us nothing, and how many of us care if we need to get a registration code if we want to install it ourselves rather than have Argus IT do it. Once Argus is installed in enough practices, then the electronic exchange of confidential medical information will take off. And then the Argus mob might even be able to make a buck from corporate pathology and radiology. Too bad other public money spent on health industry IT hasn't produced anything as worthwhile. John Mac _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
