tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733074358901582680.post7250606273321418253..comments2024-03-23T05:28:35.472-04:00Comments on Healthcare Standards: Starting new Religion?Keith W. Boonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16883038460949909300noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733074358901582680.post-84567572035392039762011-07-18T09:43:33.958-04:002011-07-18T09:43:33.958-04:00you writing is so impressive but the concept about...you writing is so impressive but the concept about start new religion its not practical <br />its too difficult for workaspirinhttp://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/aspirin_v_467.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-733074358901582680.post-79460588378687727882011-07-14T09:58:22.211-04:002011-07-14T09:58:22.211-04:00Amen! (This is a post about religion, right?)
We ...Amen! (This is a post about religion, right?)<br /><br />We don't need more initiatives. We need to make the existing plethora of initiatives (federal-level, state-level, SDO-level, etc.) work better. <br /><br />"There are already more initiatives than any one person can reasonably keep track of." I would go a step further to say "there are already more initiatives than most ORGANIZATIONS can reasonably keep track of" even large companies with multiple people involved in interoperability efforts. Each initiative typically spawns many parallel workgroups each meeting weekly with its own set of homework, etc. From being involved, I have observed that the coordinators struggle valiantly to get the participation (reading the materials, participating in votes) of those who have signed up, and it's a constant struggle. That indicates the already overloaded state of affairs. <br /><br />ONC S&I Framework was not really an "additional" replacement in that it replaced the void left by HITSP's discontinuance, and I think that the "standards harmonization" effort did need to occur through an open process that was not beholden to any one SDO. So there was subtraction of HITSP and addition of S&I. Admittedly, S&I goes well beyond HITSP in its inclusion of pilots and reference implementation (open source code). <br /><br />But if there are yet other initiatives being proposed, then I have trouble seeing how further piling on is going to be helpful to the industry. Let's do a few focused things well rather than many things poorly. <br /><br />DavidDavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13251393010554964308noreply@blogger.com