Re: US Government declares twenty Health IT Standards.

As I said in my earlier email, there is nothing new in this 
"announcement".  I'm not sure why the Bush administration is brought up 
in this context other than that this effort part of a large e-government 
initiative going on for a number of years .  This is mostly work by the 
CHI that has been going on for quite awhile (since 2001) in an effort to 
help guide interoperability in US health care and to coordinate 
government efforts in this area.   All this is clearly stated in the 
Federal Register article.   These 20 standards have been recommended 
since 2004 and has been part of a very deliberative process with 
standards bodies and industry.  I've suggested some other areas that CHI 
should look at but they seem reluctant to take my suggestions (should I 
say my ideas are irrelevant?).

Dave
J. Antas wrote:
> Ignacio Valdes wrote:
>> Hi J, the link to the doc on your website seems to not do anything. 
>> This is not a comment on the federal government 
>
> Well, it was unintentional.
> It seems that the US Gov. does not like to be linked to. 
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> Thanks for the warning, the final lines of that message have been 
> changed to:
>   "The list may be freely downloaded from the US Gov. Printing Office.
> (The e-HealthExpert.org members will have to log into the 
> e-HealthExpert.org site to be able to download a copy by following the 
> "attachment"/"fr23de05-78.pdf" link presented bellow these lines.)"
>
> While we are at it and because English is not our mother language, are 
> the semantics right with the "declares" part of the title - "US 
> Government declares twenty Health IT Standards."?
>
> The idea was to convey the sense that it seems that the Bush 
> administration is convinced that by simply publishing the list, in the 
> next day they will get everybody else to jump into those so called 
> "standards" .
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> J.Antas
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