--- Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ....the concern is not just the one time fee from what I have > heard....there is also a fee for using the certification label and > the > need to recertify down the road..... > > A cursory look at the CCHIT web site doesn't tell me much about certification costs. Charging one fee for certification and then another to display a logo on a web site (or box) saying you are certified sounds a little surprising, but periodic recrtification seems like a natural requirement. In any event, I have the luxury of looking at this all as an "academic" issue. But it does seem to me health information systems are critical systems, and yes, it does make me uneasy that lives may depend on systems that have not been reviewed or certified in any way. I see the goal of Hardhats and WorldVistA as being the development of systems that are both affordable and of high quality. We need to take both seriously. That being said, I don't see certification (of any kind) as a panacea. It reminds of current practice in software development today, where products are basically handed off to another team for some level of testing and review. Trying to achieve quality through a process like this is well nigh impossible. I don't know what the answers are. === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Tao of VistA: If all you see is MUMPS, you see nothing. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
