>From a healthcare IT guy.
Electronic Medical Records are a biggie that need to be funded and completed, along with sharing of medical records between hospitals, electronically across the US, which was the end-state of the EMR in the first place. Hospitals are still relying way too much on paper, to do there processing, instead of doing things digitally, which is wasting money and time. Security: Honestly, compared to SOX and GLBA, HIPPA just doesn't have the teeth and the penalities and the priority that the Federal reg's have and SOX/GLBA/PCI do, therefore all these addressable sections, but without major fines and pressure like there is under the other regulations, there isn't going to be funding and priority with the HMO's and Healthcare to get this done, because they are going to say they can't do it because they don't have the money to do it. Again with the non-profits it's a chicken and egg scenario honestly, you basically are making decisions to your profitability or lack of profitability, its affect on your bond ratings, and trying to use that money to either purchase solutions to comply with federal mandates or to improve your business and workers efficency, to the business if it doesn't affect the bottom line positively then its not good for business, and I don't know about you but in this economy spending is not the first thing on there minds, and if you say solution X is going to cost Y, they are going to look at you like you are insane... Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: ezi...@lifespan.org Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ________________________________ From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Would this be good for IT, or what? (UNCLASSIFIED) +1 times ten! We'll spend thousands sending out kids to college but never teach them the basics of money and not using credit for anything but a house. My parents didn't teach me that, it took me over 40 years (until Feb of last year) to really "get it" (thank you Dave Ramsey). Funny the things we think we *need* to have. Pretty sure 99% of these items our ancestors got along just fine without. Veering nearer to back on topic, adding the need for several thousand IT jobs can't be a bad thing, but I am interested in hearing from IT guys in the healthcare industry what obstacles need to be overcome. It's one thing to say "digitize healthcare records", another entire to pull it off - there must be dozens of little "gotcha's". David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 7:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Would this be good for IT, or what? (UNCLASSIFIED) On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM <larry.k...@us.army.mil> wrote: > This is more the reality... > http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/pf/0901/gallery.layoffs_and_salary_c uts/index.html "I've had to budget everything from food to when I go to the dry cleaners..." A budget? Heaven forbid. </SARCASM> And people wonder why the economy crashed. It's because this entire country -- from this former "Media Relations" marketroid to high-level execs (auto industry, banking industry, I'm looking at you) -- are not in the habit of keeping track of where the money is going. In the interests of honesty: I'm not excepting myself from the above criticism. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
