Ignacio, I like this post so much!
Just for fun, some fresh news about the French DMP (for Dossier Médical Personnel: Personal Medical Record... you can already notice how old fashioned is the "Medical" when everywhere else the big word is "Health"). Since Frenchies are more serious than everybody else, our collective health system (sorry medical system) will be ready in July 2007 when less skillful countries are planning it for 2010. Since Frenchies are smarter than everybody else, it will also be the less expensive because the government said that the budget was about 2 euros per record and per year. We really don't understand why other countries are ready to spend much more, and we are very proud to have a medical record for the price of a condom. Some narrow minded people would rate this project with 4 ambulances, since nothing exists 6 months before it starts, but since we have some news about a recent "trial run" where 6 big consortia were involved (with some small companies such as Siemens, Accenture, France Telecom, Bull, Atos, Microsoft...). To be fair, I must say that when these consortia applied, they thought that a record would be worth 15 to 10 euros, and discovered later that they "had a dream". Here are the figures: The target was to open 30 000 records from June to November. Actually 35 855 have been created, among which 30 412 were considered real. Among these 30 412 real records, only 2 836 were considered "living records" (9%) The French DMP is just a document management system, and the 2 836 living record held an average content of 4 documents. Among the 30 412 real records, 2 391 were accessed by the patient (7,8 %) and 322 wrote something (1 %) 70% of all records were created by hospitals. 2 526 health professionals and 92 care places were involved in this run. One funny thing to tell is that a big consortium (Siemens, Bull, EDS) who was active in 4 French regions was stopped because some Medical Doctors, who also applied as patients, discovered that patient access was secured by a login and password built the following way: Login = 5 first letters of last name + 3 first letters of first name + 1 numerical digit to distinguish between people with similar 5+3 login (for example, the login for Philippe Ameline would have been AMELIPHI1 or maybe AMELIPHI2 Password = Login (!!!!!) As you can imagine, everybody could open anybody's else personal health record (and then change the password just for fun). For the French government, it was an evidence that this test was useful. For some narrow minded people, it was an evidence that a multi-regional test with real medical information and NO DESIGN AT ALL is a very stupid thing. As you see, as a "national wide disaster", this project is worth 4 ambulances... however, it would be a pity not to be allowed to fire these ones ;-) Regards, Philippe Ignacio Valdes wrote: > > 'Health-IT news articles usually follow a perennial pattern of loud > hype followed by quiet failure. If what was at stake were not so > important, the never ending raft of optimistic and un-critical press > releases and articles about 'progress', 'advances' and 'announced > plans to' would be a cause for amusement, guffaws and occasional > cavorting at the lemming-like behavior of so many organizations and > journalists touting the next big thing. To illustrate, here's a list > of recent news items for your reading pleasure. For further amusement, > please use the following 3 ambulance scoring system for each of the > projects described: 0 ambulances (succeed), 1 ambulance (fail), 2 > ambulances (multi-million dollar fail) and 3 ambulances (multi-million > dollar fail with firing) for their likelihood of success or failure. > Let the fun begin!' > > http://www.linuxmednews.com/1166157323/index_html > <http://www.linuxmednews.com/1166157323/index_html> > >
