[Hardhats-members] Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Mar 25, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: and...at the risk of stating the obvious there should be some mechanism for evaluating the certification authority and the criteria... Sadly, I don't know how many people are even thinking in those terms. What we are discussing

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-25 Thread Thurman Pedigo
] On Behalf Of Gregory Woodhouse Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 9:23 PM To: openhealth@yahoogroups.com Cc: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Hardhats-members] Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software?? On Mar 25, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Joseph Dal Molin wrote

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
On Mar 25, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Thurman Pedigo wrote: To err is human. To really screw up requires a computer. Yes, I've even heard a few attributions for it. Unfortunately, it repeated so often simply because it is, well, true. I presume every one on this list has heard this trite little

[Hardhats-members] Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-24 Thread Greg Woodhouse
[I hope you don't mind if I copy this to Hardhats. I think it is a topic of interest to both communities.] I have mixed feelings here. It seems completely reasonable to want to have an accreditation/certification process for health information systems (though the jurisdiction issue is certainly a

[Hardhats-members] Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-24 Thread Fred Trotter
You are right we should not receive a by we do need to make concrete suggestions as to how the same organization can accomplish open source evaluations... Here are the suggestions from emrupdate.com emrupdate Markedly decrease your up-front fees and eliminate the percent royalties provisions.

[Hardhats-members] Re: [openhealth] CCHIT biased towards proprietary software??

2006-03-24 Thread Marc Krawitz
This is a really important issue for all of us since it could alter the adoption level of VistA - so if you have comments on CCHIT, you should submit them to the CCHIT. March 31st is the end of the public comment period. Please go to the following URL to submit your comments: