Absolutely not! I do want the patient to be in control of his/her data, with GPs assisting. I believe in a distributed EMR with control by the patient....
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ivhalpc
Nov 25, 2006 2:09 pm
I presumed then and still presume that Mr. Gates like just about everyone else grossly estimates the difficulty of Healthcare IT. Optimism in this business is...
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Adrian Midgley
amidgley2@...
Nov 25, 2006 10:56 am
... Not so. The principle generalises and scales well. ... Messaging ("sent to the GP") is one approach, and one that has had a lot of effort and money...
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Nandalal Gunaratne
nandalalx
Nov 25, 2006 1:43 am
IT would seem to me that, what you favour is a system where, all patients will have their EMR with their GPs and nobody else and nowhere else. What is done in...
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Adrian Midgley
amidgley2@...
Nov 24, 2006 10:10 pm
... Nicely put. I tend to think that my notes, made by me, and sitting where they currently sit, upstairs in my Practice building, mean something. It is clear...
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Adrian Midgley
amidgley2@...
Nov 24, 2006 10:02 pm
... Not unless the current one falls apart. Apropos of which, when/if it does, I need something better to present......
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David Forslund
dwforslund
Nov 24, 2006 5:32 pm
I'm not sure what Thomas' view is, but here are my $.02. Thinking of messaging tends to distract one from trying to solve the real problem. The idea seems to...
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Will Ross
wdross3
Nov 24, 2006 4:28 pm
Thomas, Can you elaborate on the design flaw you see in a message based National e-Health Grid? Is a message based grid inherently flawed? Or is the design...
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Nandalal Gunaratne
nandalalx
Nov 24, 2006 2:54 pm
... I hope not! In the sense that the NHS forgets about plans for EMR. Maybe a more sensible and practical approach will result? Nandalal ... ...
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Ignacio Valdes
ivhalpc
Nov 24, 2006 5:21 am
"I don't want people to completely discount Medsphere as a scourge on the open source community and relegate it to the status of a pariah for suing its...
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Molly Cheah
drcheah2000
Nov 24, 2006 12:13 am
... We're about to embark on the plan for a "e-Health Research Network" for Asia. These unfortunate case studies come in handy as lessons learnt elsewhere that...
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Adrian Midgley
amidgley2@...
Nov 23, 2006 9:33 pm
... The knife edge appears to be to its throat, I agree with the above, I'm afraid I've fallen into the trap of thinking of a few tens of millions as not...
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Thomas Beale
twbeale
Nov 23, 2006 6:12 pm
... just based on what we read in the Guardian, it appears to be on a knife-edge anyway. But there has been substantive spending - CFH has already spent many...
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Adrian Midgley
amidgley2@...
Nov 23, 2006 2:46 pm
... Little substantive spending has happened - various admin types appointed, but the contracts only pay if it happens. So the likely course would be for it to...
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Nandalal Gunaratne
nandalalx
Nov 23, 2006 7:21 am
... wrote: It is also a bad idea in terms of ... Bad start for HIT if this so happens. Governments may be reluctant to spend on such developments, quoting this...
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Karsten Hilbert
catch23de
Nov 22, 2006 10:30 pm
... Thomas, please make our German decision makers understand that. They are dooming Germany big time right now. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @...
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Thomas Beale
twbeale
Nov 22, 2006 7:47 pm
A centralised system has absolutely no hope of working anyway, in terms of the NHS idea of it (central bucket of messages), and probably no hope in any...
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Seref Arikan
serefarikan
Nov 22, 2006 4:02 pm
Hi Will, I'd be very much interested in hearing more about SeeBeyond going open source. Would you please share any news on this one? Best Regards Seref Arikan...
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Will Ross
wdross3
Nov 22, 2006 1:13 pm
Mark, Yes, the systems I am currently working on use a distributed indexing function to manage user access control and to host pointers to the location of the...
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Adrian Midgley
amidgley2@...
Nov 22, 2006 12:31 pm
... That is a view shared by (at least many of) those who have written GP computer systems in current operation, and at least some of those who have considered...
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mspohr
Nov 21, 2006 9:26 pm
Interesting that the system was designed to just "assume" that everyone would upload their private health information. I've always thought that a distributed...
Eric Bringas and I attended SCALE this year. I plan to attend again the 2007 edition, which has added a specific health care track. [wr] - - - - - - - - ... ...
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Fred Trotter
tr0tt3r
Nov 20, 2006 8:41 pm
yep. I am working on this and I know that David Uhlman is deeply involved too. -FT ... -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com [Non-text portions of this...
For quite unrelated reasons my attention was caught by a note on how to design posters at http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/astro/computing/posters.html It occurs to...
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Molly Cheah
drcheah2000
Nov 8, 2006 11:24 am
FYI - FROM WHO Dr Margaret Chan nominated to be WHO Director-General http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr65/en/index.html 8 November 2006 -- Dr...
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Dr Molly Cheah
drcheah2000
Nov 1, 2006 11:25 pm
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Dr Molly Cheah
drcheah2000
Nov 1, 2006 10:35 pm
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Adrian Midgley
amidgley2@...
Nov 1, 2006 12:55 pm
... Good. Thanks for the work on what we all know to be a harder job than it looks. -- A...
