I agree, you have my full support on this effort. Perhaps a sourceforge project could be used to collect donations to help fund this initiative. If we can save the 25,000+ annual fees it would be a worthwhile investment.
Greg -- Gregory Caulton Principal at PatientOS Inc. personal email: caulton...@gmail.com http://www.patientos.com corporate: (888)-NBR-1EMR || fax 857.241.3022 On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Shams Islam <sham...@yahoo.com> wrote: > CCHIT is a threat to small vendors as well as Open source. > I do not have 35K needed to certify application that I spent two years > developing. It's a conscious effort by these big vendors to keep small guys > out of competition. > Love to hear what you find in the Meeting. > Shams > > --- On Sat, 3/14/09, Neil Cowles > <neil.cow...@tolvenhealth.com<neil.cowles%40tolvenhealth.com>> > wrote: > > From: Neil Cowles > <neil.cow...@tolvenhealth.com<neil.cowles%40tolvenhealth.com> > > > Subject: [openhealth] RE: CCHIT meeting FOSS at HIMSS > To: > open-ehealth-collaborat...@googlegroups.com<open-ehealth-collaborative%40googlegroups.com>, > openhealth@yahoogroups.com <openhealth%40yahoogroups.com>, "'Hardhats'" < > hardh...@googlegroups.com <hardhats%40googlegroups.com>>, "'Mark Leavitt'" > <mleav...@cchit.org <mleavitt%40cchit.org>>, "'Dennis Wilson'" < > dwil...@cchit.org <dwilson%40cchit.org>> > Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 3:44 PM > > > Fred, > > I will be attending the meeting with CCHIT in person on April 6, 2009 at > HIMSS. > > Neil Cowles > Tolven > www.tolven.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: open-ehealth- collaborative@ googlegroups. com > [mailto:open-ehealth- collaborative@ googlegroups. com] On Behalf Of fred > trotter > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:45 AM > To: openhea...@yahoogro ups.com; open-ehealth- collaborat...@googlegroups. > com; > Hardhats; Mark Leavitt; Dennis Wilson > Subject: CCHIT meeting FOSS at HIMSS > > Hello, > Recently, I was asked by several community members to > begin 'activating' the community at large against certain threats to > FOSS in healthcare. Dr. Valdes and I have been planning on doing this > for years, and, in our own ways, have both begun to attempt to make > the public aware of the issues that our community (FOSS Health IT) > faces. Dr. Valdes has been publishing several articles on the subject > at http://linuxmednews .com, which have meet with considerable success. > Including slashdotting: > http://science. slashdot. org/article. pl?sid=09/ 03/10/2055229 > > While Ignacio has been taking a hard-line Free Software > approach, I have been (in a twist for me) taking an 'Open Source' > approach. The people who approached me at DOHCS were unanimous in > their belief that what FOSS needed from the government was merely a > level playing field, so that we could compete, and win, on our own > merits. > > The largest single threat to the future of FOSS in > healthcare in the US is the certification process mandated by the > stimulus act. The language provides funding for -certified- EHR > systems and eventually penalties for not using -certified- EHR > systems. > > The best established certification body is CCHIT. They have > not been named as the certification body, but they are likely lobbying > for that role. However, CCHIT has had an anti-open source stance for > years. For years, I and other activists in the community have chosen > to largely ignore this bias. Simply because CCHIT was an optional > certification. Now, things have changed. It is possible that the > government will mandating a certification program that is either CCHIT > or similarly unfriendly to FOSS. > > Recently I submitted my complaints to Dennis Wilson > (associated with both FOSS Laika and employed by CCHIT) who put me in > touch with Mark Leavitt. As a main result of that discussion, Mark has > agreed to have a meeting with the community-at- large about this issue > at HIMSS (please see the forwarded message from the CCHIT e-newsletter > below). > > Granted, this is like offering to meet with the Rebel > Alliance at the annual Death Star conference. However, Mark has also > agreed to provide some kind of remote access capability for those of > us who cannot afford the time, cost or moral compromise required to > attend HIMSS. > > The meeting will be held at HIMSS on Monday, April 6, Room > 10d, Session #2 2:00 3:00 PM > > I have heard from several of the HIMSS 'regulars' in our > community that they will be going. However, it is critical that we > have a show of force within the community from precisely those people > who have the most to lose with regards to the certification issue: > small support companies and individual consultants. > > I am going on vacation next week, so I will be silent on > the mailing lists for a while. Would someone else please take the lead > on coordinating the sharing of hotel rooms, etc etc. If you are > already going and you would not mind 'putting someone up' so that they > could attend this conference, please speak up. I have space for one in > my hotel room starting Sunday. If you live in Chicago and you have a > couch to spare, please speak up. > > We are becoming more 'organized' as we speak. Please watch > this space for more announcements on how you can participate to keep > the US government from making anti-FOSS blunders now and in the > future. > > Best, > -Fred Trotter > http://www.fredtrot ter.com > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sue Reber <sre...@cchit. org> > Date: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:07 PM > Subject: FW: CCHIT eNews: Seeking volunteers, Expansion, > Interoperability and Open Source > To: fred trotter <fred.trotter@ gmail.com> > Cc: Dennis Wilson <dwil...@cchit. org> > > Fred see below Commission Hosts Interoperability and Open Source > Roundtables on Certification in our regular electronic newsletter. > > C Sue Reber > > Marketing Director, CCHIT > > Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology > > 503.288.5876 office | 503.703.0813 cell | 503.287.4613 fax > > sre...@cchit. org > > --- majority of newsletter removed for brevity --- > > Commission Hosts Interoperability and Open Source Roundtables on > Certification > > In addition to its annual Town Hall at the upcoming HIMSS09 Annual > Conference in Chicago, the Certification Commission will be hosting > two technical roundtables, co-located with the conference, for health > IT vendors and developers. 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