ivhalpc wrote: > I wonder how this is all going to end and I fear it will end badly as > in Nationalized medicine in the US when costs continue to climb out of > control because of this kind of insanity.
A bit off-topic, but huh? Why would "Nationalised medicine" be a bad ending? No system is perfect, but countries with such systems have demonstrably better health outcomes on a population basis at much lower overall cost to society - both rich countries and especially transitional and developing countries. Surely it is US model of privatised medicine which represents the "bad ending" which so many countries are heading towards? Tim C > --- In [email protected], David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > IBM is part of one of the ONCHIT "winners". Also IBM is > participating in > > the HSSP effort. Sounds like normal operations for IBM. > > I've not found a technical reference to the IHII yet, although the > > ONCHIT required at least some of the response to be open source. > > > > Dave Forslund > > Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > This is another interesting paragraph > > > > > > "A statement from IBM said the company will engage with industry > > > leaders. But it did not mention whether it will coordinate efforts > > > with the so-called Interoperability Consortium—a group of large IT > > > vendors including IBM, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Oracle > > > Corp.—who banded together to call for open standards to be used in > any > > > national health information network." > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > * Visit your group "openhealth > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth>" > on the web. > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service > <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/W4wwlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
