--- Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All I can say is that no one has specified where the money is going > to > come from for all these fancy aspects of EMR's. The price can not be > passed on to the patients or to the insurance companies. And I, for > one, have no interest in paying $28,000 to "certify" that my EMR > plays > well with others. If it works for me, OK. But spending even more > for > interoperability seems to have diminishing returns. > > Kevin > But the way I read it, CCHIT is about a lot more than just interoperability. It includes basic integrity of the record. See, for example <http://www.cchit.org/files/Ambulatory%20Domain/Final%20Criteria%20-%20FUNCTIONALITY%20-%20Ambulatory%20EHRs%20-%202006.pdf> for an example of CCHIT criteria. How, for example is "The system shall create and maintain medication lists" an interoperability requirement? === 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
