Re: Government Promotion of Open Source in Healthcare was: Greenbelt,MD meeting; VistA rollout plan template

[John Gage]

I humbly submit (and I am sincere in saying humbly) that physicians have played almost no role whatsoever in this.

If the hospital-based physicians I know had any say in it, VistA would be installed nation-wide right now.

I daresay patients would say exactly the same thing.


On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 08:30 AM, Tim Cook wrote:

But physicians made
their choices.  We should learn from this history and find the
missed opportunitites.