Hi Berth,
Please let me add my set of questions to yours, for I have not been able to
figure out the overall scheme of the discussed setup. Maybe its my fault,
and I apologize in advance if I've missed the answers in the discussion or
on the web.
What is the extend of Google's or Microsoft's offer to these hospitals? Both
MS and Google give me the impression that their offer is about personal
healthcare records. The extend of functionality they will offer is
important, because it can either be a complementary functionality that will
allow the patient to use his/her initiative to transfer data to allowed
parties, like the next GP or hospital, or it can be a complete alternative
to whole idea of national healthcare information systems, which is unlikely
in my opinion.
What about the legal consequences? For example: I can remember being told my
multiple sources that it is not legal to store healthcare data of a UK
citizen outside of UK. Will the mentioned solution be located in USA? Are
there similar legal constraints for discussed setup?

Cheers
Seref

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Bert Verhees <bert.verhees at rosa.nl> wrote:

>  All information below is published in the Dutch press, specially, the
> always good informed website on health ICT: Qure (http://www.qure.nl).
> Normally, I don't repeat press-messages on this or any other mailinglist,
> but this looks very important to many of us, who are working on a
> OpenEhr-implementation. I hope OpenEhr related press will occur so
> frequently that we don't need to know. Anyhow, a business-succes for Openehr
> related software is in my opinion a success for all of us. It means that
> OpenEhr will be something management have to think/talk about
>
> The latest update on this thread is, that the MCA (medical centre alkmaar)
> will run, as first hospital, software based on the European EPD standard (CEN
> 13606). This is also said by Hans Kedzierski *(the person who announced
> that 10 hospitals are going to use the software from Google or Microsoft)*,
> member of the board of the MCA, and is published last friday
> This latest announcement will be explained on a public meeting in october. 
> Interesting
> are the companies who are working together on this: HP, de 13-Groep, ERC,
> Unusual Visions, Carelliance/Medical Insight, Technicolor, ASP4All,
> Eurofiber en Priority Telecom. Special interesting for us is ERC (
> http://www.e-recordcompany.eu/), reseller of Ocean Software. ERC seems a
> brand new company, its website is not (yet) fully functional (need some
> polishing).
>
> Does this mean that the MCA will be using the two systems simultaneous?
> Does this mean that there will be data-migration software between OpenEhr
> and "Google or Microsoft" (always  mentioned together by Kedzierski**)?
> And if, how does this reflect on us? Will Google create an
> OpenEHR-data-exchange API?
>
> More on this you can read in on the news-site Qure:
>
> http://www.qure.nl/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3179&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
> (it is not a free news-service)
>
>
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