On Tuesday 28 November 2006 7:13 am, Greg Twyford wrote: > john hilton wrote: > > On Monday 27 November 2006 12:30 pm, Greg Twyford wrote: > >> Guess what, we in Division land are waiting for a DOHA decision about > >> DNIMP. > > > > please explain > > John, > > DNIMP, or Divisions Network IM Project is the funding program that will > require Divisions to return probably de-identified patient-level data to > ADGP. There has been some press about this in Ozdoc. > > How we will do this, what protocols will need to be followed, etc., has > been the subject of a nationwide consultation process and we are now > waiting for the decision from DOHA about the final shape of it all. > > The importance for Divisions is that we are required to be providing > this sort of data by 2008 under our reporting/funding framework. None of > us know how yet, what technology or what resources we'll need to have to > do it though. Or DOHA might decide it's all a bad idea. Your local > division should know about this. If they don't, they need to. > > Are you interested in the final version of the consultant's report that > was distributed to those of us who participated in the consultation? > > Greg
Thanks, no, it was the acronym, but i was saying to people in the late 90s that we should have been looking at marketing de-identified data, just to get a foot in the door and attribute a nominal commercial value to it, so that when the day came and the feds decided to get it off us withthe carrot trick we would say " hang on, this data is worth xxx to us" jh -- RICK: Listen, Neil. Do you know the difference between you and some number two's?! [pause] Nothing! [Neil sniffs and tears well up in his eyes] Stop crying, Neil. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
