AthenaHealth is hoping to be a big player here. AthenaHealth is owned by (CEO), another Bush , a cousin of our notorious pres. George Bush. The whole health care is going to hell, because : * The healthcare in this country has so much crap accumulated over the years, that digitizing the crap is not the solution. The solution is to start from scratch with a single payer system and get rid of all the paper work. Get rid of all the private health insurance companies.The only documentation should be patient health history and none of these multi-tier billing with all these insurances, referrals, drug formularies etc etc. The provider is the cheapest component of the health care system. Obama is going to be a disappointment in this area. Sorry , I have so many things to say, I can't get my thoughts organized :-) - balu
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:04 PM, daniel connelly < [email protected]> wrote: > Jeez, Bradley, didn't you get the memo. > > There are no programmers left in America to be stimulated, or do the > stimulating, whichever comes first. Here I speak particularly of a > software project already endorsed by our Preez-to-be and, sad to say, > project without significant FOSSing, to date: digitized health records, > > http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/12/technology/stimulus_health_care/index.htm > > Of course, the problem with electronic medical records standardization > to this point has been that the government has deferred to the free > market (being, of course, the antithesis of the free software.) > > -- Dan Connelly > > > Bradley Holt wrote: > > I'm sure you all are Slashdot readers, so you probably already saw this: > > http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F14%2F0032223 > > > > What do you think of this idea? Could be an interesting idea at a > > state level even if it doesn't go anywhere federally. > > > > Thanks, > > Bradley > > > > >
