What the readers of this article need to understand is that a large chunk
of the Standards needed by the ONCHIT Program already exist but they
need clear documnetation how they are used in VA's VistA and the ways that
they deal with the need for Enterprise View and Life Cycle Principles in
utilizing particular in health information architectures for a given
healthcare enterprise. This has been said many times but the implications
are still not well perceived. Work continues with providing introductiry
doumentation that complements that already produced by the VA to provide
such a view for the VistA information architecture. Other product
information architectures will need to provide comparable documntation of
their proprietary environments. Then the healthcare professional
disciplines, as aquirers of the products on the market, must decide based
upon their mastery of the underlying conceptual content and implementing
technology knowledge area. If they understand, they will buy products that
help then with their work; if they dont understand they may get badly
burned. That is reality.
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Ignacio Valdes wrote:
In a Hospital Connect editorial, Delaware senator Tom Carper has endorsed the
Veterans Affairs VistA software as a reference model for a national standard
EHR: ...Efforts are underway within the federal government to ensure that
all health care providers will be able to use IT in a uniform and secure way.
Mike Leavitt, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services,
recently announced the creation of a new commission charged with devising a
set of national health IT standards...We dont need to reinvent the wheel to
come up with standards that will work...For the past 10 years, the Department
of Veterans Affairs, the nations largest central health care system with
more than a thousand medical centers, nursing homes and outpatient clinic
across the country, has been using an EHR with amazing results.
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1137769193/index_html
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