David Guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Churches wrote: > > This is yet another powerful argument for an open-source *reference* > implementation of a primary care clinical information system: shared or > joint training and support for the core functionality which it provides > and which would be common to any value-added variants that organisations > may care to create based on it. > > > So Tim should the Health OpenWare Foundation apply for a government > grant to get this started?
By all means but the question is which government grant will they be applying for? I am not aware of any grants programme which would provide the sort of funding required for this purpose - which is not to say that such a grants programme does not exist. However, I can't help feeling that it would not be better to start work on the business and feasibility case for such an initriative, and starting spruiking that idea (the guy in the boater from the Chaser team might help...) to Roxon, Gillard, Rudd and others on the assumption that they will be in a position to instruct the DoHA to create a funding programme expressly for this purpose before the close of 2007 - and to instruct DoHA to call for competitive bids from *local*[1] consortia to undertake the project. If it is still Abbott, Costello and Howard doing the instructiing of DoHA at the end of the year then this open-source reference implementation idea is just not going to happen, at least not with government funding. Tim C [1] Yes, yes, League of Gentlemen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Gentlemen_(comedy) _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
