Quoting Les Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wouldn't call the electronic health record project 'wasteful'.
Neither would I. What I was calling wasteful was paying public money to each vendor of clinical software to develop their own proprietary interface to the Healthelink system, rather than using public money to pay once to develop a single re-useable module which all vendors could use and whose source code is made available in the public domain. > Personally I think you should cast aside your sceptical > no-government-group-could-do-anything-useful attitude That is not my attitude at all and I don't think that my message gave that impression. I was pointing out that we thought we had learned from what the HIC had done with the HIC Online interface. After that experience, Horst Herb went to a lot of trouble on GPCG to propose a more rational and less wasteful way for government to fund software developments. Despite his clear and sensible suggestions, we are seeing the same wasteful approach being used again by the NSW State government. Do you believe that the way that NSW Health is going about making it possible for GPs to connect to Healtelink representts the best use of public money? Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens, South Australia 5086 Phone 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 Mobile 0407 181 683 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
