Will Ross wrote:
> With regard to the underestimated complexity of Healthcare IT, the  
> recent comments by Andrew Grove are relevant.
>
> "But a key problem with this plan is the lack of a good medical  
> records system, Grove said. His solution? Not the complicated,  
> expensive medical record-keeping system that many companies and  
> health-care providers are trying to develop, but something much  
> simpler—the use of existing mass-produced technologies."
>
>    http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/med- 
> grove-110806.html
>
>   
classic complete naivete:

> Although there's debate about how to create a record that would be 
> accessible to a range of providers and still protect files, Grove 
> presented a simple answer: Keep medical records on a Web-accessible 
> word-processing file.
>
> "It costs nothing because it's already in place," Grove said. "The 
> technology already exists."
>
there's nothing more to say.

- thomas beale




 
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