David Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It would have been most unfair to charge anything to have OSCAR validated in
Ontario. It is the only really top class FOSS Canadian EMR!
Nandalal
The OntarioMD Certification (or Validation as it is
now called) was free when we subject OSCAR through the
process last summer
(http://www.ontariomd.com/en/services/cycle3.jsp). But
we were clearly told that any future certification
cost will be covered by the "vendors". For example,
all vendor products will likely be required to pass
conformance testing to connect to OLIS
(http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/en/downloads/partner_conf_jun2002_e_gpaskiw.pdf
when it is rolled out this year. I have no idea how
much it will cost - it won't be cheap.
David
--- Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While this is a US specific issue.... similar
> challenges have or are
> about to crop up elsewhere as countries seem to
> mimic each others
> policies and initiatives a great deal when it comes
> to health IT. Our UK
> friends are quite familiar with this....and we are
> starting to see
> similar patterns here in Canada.
>
> At last weeks townhall meeting the Certification
> Commission for
> Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) announced
> the pricing and
> payment model (slide 22,
>
http://www.cchit.org/files/CCHIT_Town_Call-20060309_v1.1.pdf)
> for
> meeting the EHR criteria they are developing. The
> intent is to create a
> self sustaining CCHIT organization by charging
> vendors to certify their
> products.
>
> The pricing model in this case is based on sales of
> a product with an
> initial certification cost of $25-35 k. The fact
> that the design of this
> model is based on the legacy software business model
> creates some
> serious issues for open source alternatives, no the
> least of which is
> the initial cost of certification.
>
> CCHIT is soliciting comments on its plans....I
> strongly urge both
> potential adopters and developers of open source
> EHRs to voice their
> thoughts and opinions on this potential roadblock to
> innovation.
>
> http://www.cchit.org/publiccomment4.htm
>
> Joseph
> Director, WorldVistA
>
David H Chan, MD, CCFP, MSc, FCFP
Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine
McMaster University
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