Comments on: Should CCHIT survive?

By: CCHIT and OSS : Confessions of a Pediatric Practice Consultant

CCHIT and OSS : Confessions of a Pediatric Practice Consultant — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:03:29 +0000

[...] I’m not alone in my thinking. Some of the folks over at emrupdate.com (namely, Dr. Al Borges) have been quite vocal about it. You can see his comment here on histalk2.com, which led me to a damning article on ZDNet and other links. [...]

By: eleddy

eleddy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:09:18 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. As a software developer I find myself appalled with the notion that a government sponsored agency thinks that they can standardize a software requirements specification. To anyone outside of health care this is a preposterous notion so why should it be legit inside? CCHIT stifles innovation and competition by creating an insurmountable barrier to entry for small companies into the EMR market. IMHO it should be scrapped and maybe go back to what really matters here: standard data interchange formats. Although I haven’t heard too much about HL7 et al lately either… sigh…

By: ZDNet Healthcare mobile edition

ZDNet Healthcare mobile edition — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:35:44 +0000

[...] solutions. (Picture from Apple.) Critics like Joseph Conn and Fred Trotter say it has become counter-productive, and suggest the Obama Administration either insist on reform or scrap it. The problem may lie in [...]