http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2009/07/23/dr-david-blumenthals-testimony-regarding-hit/ Bringing Human Factors and Ergonomics Research to the Business World Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:47:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2009/07/23/dr-david-blumenthals-testimony-regarding-hit/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Ken Baumgardner Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:58:40 +0000 http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/?p=1543#comment-308 I personally am afraid that the whole effort will fail after much time and billions of dollars are spent. The government is not off to a good start as far as I can tell. Instead of mandating the use of the "open source" system currently used very successful by the VA health care system and beginning to immediately implement it, they have apparently decided to start at the very beginning of the application system development life cycle by developing "standards" that all hospital systems and probably private doctors practices systems must meet. I can only hope that the system used by the VA (also used by the American Indian health care system) comes close to meeting those standards already and therefore will require the least amount of customization to meet them. It's more likely, however, that this system will be excluded from consideration because it is "open source". And the government will eventually mandate massive changes to proprietary health care systems. What a shame. I personally am afraid that the whole effort will fail after much time and billions of dollars are spent. The government is not off to a good start as far as I can tell. Instead of mandating the use of the “open source” system currently used very successful by the VA health care system and beginning to immediately implement it, they have apparently decided to start at the very beginning of the application system development life cycle by developing “standards” that all hospital systems and probably private doctors practices systems must meet. I can only hope that the system used by the VA (also used by the American Indian health care system) comes close to meeting those standards already and therefore will require the least amount of customization to meet them. It’s more likely, however, that this system will be excluded from consideration because it is “open source”. And the government will eventually mandate massive changes to proprietary health care systems. What a shame.

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