Tim Churches wrote:
The fact everyone is so worried about $28K shows we don't have a very serious, broad or
deep indigenous Health IT industry - I am sure the price would not worry IBA, HCN and a
few others. In fact I believe (and this may not be popular) that we would do much better
with 4 or 5 large well resouced providers than the status quo. May be the service levels
that people are complaining about could be improved.
The RACGP Computer Committee (as it was then known) was told back in
about 1987 that the market for software in Australian general practice
was big enough to support only three vendors each of whom could have
enough users and therefore income and resources to develop, maintain and
support a good product well. We we told that this was the case in the
retail phamarcy software market, and that the pharmacists were
benefiting from this.
Don't look to the software vendors or the MSIA to push this along - there is
nothing in it for
them.
David More, whose motivation and initiative was it that led to the
formation of CCHIT or to its being used to test software for American
GPs?
--
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
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