[PLTL] - Obama names doctor to clear health care paper swamp Last Updated: 2009-03-20 18:05:48 -0400 (Reuters Health) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama named a Boston doctor and Harvard professor on Friday to lead his $20 billion dollar effort to modernize the disparate and paper-dominated health care system in the United States.
Dr. David Blumenthal will become the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, charged with implementing health information technology provisions of Obama's recently passed economic stimulus package. ========================================================= I can't explain why, exactly, but when I read this article I immediately thought of DragonflyBSD. Converting our creaky old medical cottage industry into a new streamlined and paperless enterprise will obviously require enormous computing resources -- reliability above all, and then even more reliability on top of that. A centralized database of everyone's complete medical records (it seems to me) is just not going to be adequate.[1] What's needed is redundancy and remote backup/restore and a completely self-checking and self-correcting network (sounds like the ARPA net to me ;o) If this is not exactly what Matt had in mind when he started Dragonfly, then it at least seems parallel to it, rather than orthogonal. Just my thoughts. Any comments welcomed. 1. CVS versus git/hg/bitkeeper, et al?
