One answer to Greg's question can be explored in following the activities
of the ONC, AHIC and and HITSP. Another aspect is how the health
professions address IOM 2003 "Health Professions Education:" which
highlighted the key enabling role of information science and technology in
the healthcare transformation needed. It is complex and multidimensional
as Richard Davis recently noted. It must address "Enterprise View, LIfe
Cycel Principles" in th vernacular of each of the professional
disciplines. So VistA must be presented and explained in this context as a
collaborative effort of the Hardhats, World VistA with these disciplines;
this communicative environment does not yet exist. Its not Someones Else's
Problem.
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Greg Woodhouse wrote:
Okay, okay, I know you're all busy trying to get VistA to work, and so
questions like this may seem an unnecessary distraction, but where are
we going with Health Information Systems? Where should we be going?
That question really hit home last night as I was watching a
speculative program on one of the Discovery channels (about the year
2025), and again today as I was reviewing a couple of articles cited in
ACM TechNews. It struck me that I've spent a good share of my career
and intellectual energy focusing on issues having to do with
connectivity and interoperability. In fact, that has been a major focus
of computer science (and engineering) since the 1990's. But will it
always be so? What kinds of questions will we be asking in 2010 or
2015? What are the shortcomings of our technology that will seem most
acute? There are ideas like telemedicine and nanotechnology that seem
to attract some attention, but when you get right down to it, they're
mostly off the radar screen, or at least off our radar screen.
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"Interaction is the mind-body problem of computing."
--Philip L. Wadler
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