Hi Ed, You likely already know about the openClinical effort to track international projects, but just in case:
http://www.openclinical.org/nationalHITprogrammes.html At a recent workshop on Personal Health Records at Claremont Graduate University, Matt Holt summarized his findings on predictors of Highly Digitized Nations with an astonding level of precision and simplicity. His long list of candidate Nations showed the predictor was...IF country's first initial is N, THEN High use of Digital Health Records... My report on the Big N_Aries (New Zealand, Norway, and the Netherlands) is scheduled for completion in late summer. http://www.openclinical.org/natHITprogrammeNZ.html Cheers, Bob Smith, PhD Tall Tree Labs -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org] On Behalf Of William E Hammond Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:58 AM To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: HIT Mandates was: difficulties starting an implementation Thanks to Tim. Great things often happen through mistakes. I had meant to send the email only to Ian and did not notice that I was sending to the group. I have had several response and invite more. I am hoping to have the paper completed within 2 months. Thanks to all. Ed Tim Cook <twcook at shaw.ca> To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Sent by: cc: owner-openehr-technical@ Subject: HIT Mandates was: difficulties starting an implementation openehr.org 01/19/2006 10:02 AM Please respond to openehr-technical On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:22 -0500, William E Hammond wrote: > I am writing a paper on national mandates for HIT and on nation > adoptions of the EHR. Can you point me to some documentation on Scotlands plans? Hi Ed, Additional resources that may be of help Canada Health Infoway: http://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/home/home_long.aspx?UID=39 Though not National the Alberta NetCare project is Province wide: http://www.albertanetcare.ca/content/about/projectsandservices.php HTH, -- Tim Cook (See attached file: signature.asc)
