First the Standards, then the Solution
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As these words are being written, the US Congress is debating the final terms of a stimulus bill that will result in the expenditure of almost $800 billion of public funds on a wide array of initiatives intended to address an equally challenging goal: resurrecting an economy that seems inexorably headed towards its worst performance since the Great Depression. Whether that fortune gets spent wisely or not will depend a lot on open source, and open standards.
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One of those initiatives included in the stimulus bill would make the final push towards national implementation of something called "Electronic Health Records," or "EHRs"
- and spend $20 billion in the process.
EHRs are basically just frameworks of standards, and while the money may now be there, unfortunately not all of the standards are. Full Story |
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