> From: "Cameron Schlehuber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:06:02 -0700 > To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Health IT Strategist Cover Story, re: Patient IDs > > The Joseph Conn cover story got me thinking ... > > Why can't health IT identification of patient records work like banks and > other financial institutions do? I can keep accounts private OR I can share > enough information to have funds automatically moved around among any number > of systems. Why not apply the SAME principles to health records and various > services and systems IDs? If I want to share information I can. Where I > don't want to share it, I don't have to! >
Cameron!! Do you mean that there are general principles that transcend the specifics of a given system? What a concept! :-) How economical. One just learns a small set of general principles and then applies them over, and over and over.... But, then that would devalue the worth of Ph.D. Degrees, and professional qualifications, etc. Such ideas as general principles of systems would be vigorously resisted. It is a matter of meal tickets. Too many mortgages, car payments and college tuition to ever let the idea become widely accepted, Cameron. Alas. Regards, Richard. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
