Why not hand over the keeping of the patient records to patients ( like PING), where clinicians just upload to this, and they also carry it with them in a storage format that is secure and easily accessible?
The National Health Card Taiwan http://www.gi-de.com/portal/page?_pageid=42,55000&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL --- Will Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thomas, > > i appreciate your concern for what you allege is dr. > grove's naivete, > but i share dr. grove's concern that when it comes > to intelligent > health information systems, the perfect is the enemy > of the good. > in the age of wikis, soa, voip, wifi and rfid there > is no reason we > cannot leverage existing secure internet transport > and composing > capabilities to substantially improve the > interoperability of > existing clinical text and image files. when i > look at where dr. > grove's fire is directed -- at overpriced > enterprise packages that > deliberately build new proprietary silos -- i find > an ally who is > saying the right disruptive things to people who > would never listen > to me. > > with best regards, > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > On Nov 26, 2006, at 11:52 PM, Thomas Beale wrote: > > > Will Ross wrote: > >> With regard to the underestimated complexity of > Healthcare IT, the > >> recent comments by Andrew Grove are relevant. > >> > >> "But a key problem with this plan is the lack of > a good medical > >> records system, Grove said. His solution? Not the > complicated, > >> expensive medical record-keeping system that many > companies and > >> health-care providers are trying to develop, but > something much > >> simpler—the use of existing mass-produced > technologies." > >> > >> > http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/med- > >> grove-110806.html > >> > >> > > classic complete naivete: > > > >> Although there's debate about how to create a > record that would be > >> accessible to a range of providers and still > protect files, Grove > >> presented a simple answer: Keep medical records > on a Web-accessible > >> word-processing file. > >> > >> "It costs nothing because it's already in place," > Grove said. "The > >> technology already exists." > >> > > there's nothing more to say. > > > > - thomas beale > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > [wr] > > - - - - - - - - > > will ross > project manager > mendocino informatics > 216 west perkins street, suite 206 > ukiah, california 95482 usa > 707.462.6369 [office] > 707.462.5015 [fax] > www.minformatics.com > > - - - - - - - - > > "Getting people to adopt common standards is impeded > by patents." > Sir Tim Berners-Lee, BCS, 2006 > > - - - - - - - - > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com
