On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:44, Tim Churches wrote: > Yes, yes, fine, OK, whatever, but the political point that I am trying to > make is that building a capable and very sound open-source primary care EMR > for Australia is *not* a few afternoons work, not even for Horst, but *nor* > is it a $100 million exercise. It is, instead, about 8 to 10 person-years > effort by half a dozen smart people working full-time on the project over > the course of 12-18 months of calendar time, at a total cost of $1.5 to $2 > million. I can think of no more cost-effective investment to improve of our > nation's health than that, because it would save hundreds of millions by > simplifying the creation of shared EHRs and other initiatives, Money is not the issue, Tim, if you could build an EMR from the snot on the end of Tony Abbott's nose he would not give it to you: Liberal minsters do not go around nationalising whole sections of the medical IT industry, the pros and cons really don't matter for him.
Health Minister Gillard may listen politely, show her the pop-up ads on MDW and you might just get her pissed off enough to make an exemption to what is now 20 years of the pro-private State ideology (shared by both parties) and fund it, but honestly I'm doubtful. Ian _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
