Absolutely; there's no way this (releasing the source) alone would solve the problems - might be helpful in at least exposing the problems, which is a necessary first step.
On Nov 6, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Brian Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! Thanks for the read Josh. > > The article on the 834 eventually lead me to the usage outline and ASCx12. > All I got a grasp of was that there are many potential points of failure at > State, Federal and Industry levels -it's incredible that they even tried to > roll it out at the national scale in the first place! Seems like just > requesting that the code be available to the public domain falls short since > many of the intrinsic players may not want or be able to capitulate. > > Small states like Vermont have a great opportunity by creating a committee or > group to oversee or establish guidelines for an Open Source solution that can > serve as a framework for other States. I feel like what is really needed is > some sort of open test service so the various HCA participants can check > their implementations against. The test service would provide a simulation of > the entire process so HCA implementors could test their part as if it were > live. The testing app could be updated with corner cases, provide coverage > while reporting errors and warnings and serve as the impetus for evolving the > system as a whole. > > > > > > > On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Josh Sled wrote: > >> Intense Red <[email protected]> writes: >>>> Let's see what the problems really are, and fix them. >>> >>> (LMAO) Oh, that's just silly. >>> >>> How can they proprietize the code and resell it to other gov'ts and/or >>> insurance companies if they release it? >> >> I come at the from the other perspective: the code is such a product of >> a tangled set of state and federal regulations and insurance company >> legacy IT (eg. google "wonkblog 834") that it's not only impossible to >> do as you suggest, but nearly impossible to do it correctly for *this* >> combination of government and insurance companies. >> >> -- >> ...jsled >> http://asynchronous.org/
