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Tim Churches wrote:
Ignacio Valdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

david derauf wrote:
    
 Kaiser Permanente to put patient records online

/February 4, 2003/

Health maintenance organization Kaiser Permanente 
<http://www.kaiserpermanente.org/> today announced plans to put the
      
medical records of its 8.4 million patients online in what may be
      
“the 
    
most ambitious move yet toward electronic medical records,” the
      
/Wall 
    
Street Journal/ reports. The $1.8 billion project will give Kaiser 
Permanente members and physicians access to the online records and 
should be completed in three years.

Members will be able to access portions of their medical records
      
online, 
    
including test results, immunization history and current
      
medications. 
    
Madison, Wis.-based Epic Systems <http://www.epicsys.com/> will
      
provide 
    
the electronic records software and handle relevant information 
management duties; terms of the contract were undisclosed.

Kaiser has spent the last 10 years internally developing an
      
electronic 
    
records system, but following implementation problems, finally
      
opted for 
    
a commercial system. The insurer expects to save $1 billion by
      
using the 
    
Epic system in place of developing its own system, according to
      
George 
    
Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente (Rundle, 2/4).
      
'save $1 billion' by spending $1.8 billion? If I were a Kaiser
patient 
I'd be hanging onto my wallet.
    

What is the nature and fate of the system which Kaiser tried but failed to develop 
themselves? Is anything able to be rescued? Should KP release it under an open 
source license and let others pick over the bones?

Tim C

  

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