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Subject: RE: [emergency-msg] Meeting Today
I agree:-). Thanks, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:23 PM To: Timothy Grapes; 'Rex Brooks' Cc: 'Lee Tincher'; emergency-msg@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [emergency-msg] Meeting Today Thanks Tim, I'm agreeable with this up to the point where I hear that someone is pushing to get such an effort underway in some other group. Even then, I wouldn't much care as long as they were not reinventing things we have already done. My main concern is that the medical/healthcare world has a lot of money wrapped up in it and we are beginning to see a lot of exploitation already. I think the best solution is educating the marketplace that EDXL-RM and EDXL-HAVE and EDXL-DE can handle the load. It's really a question of perception. As long as it looks like there's riches to be mined in the healthcare IT domain, the vendors will do whatever they think it takes to cash in on it, and the history of healthcare IT is already one of a combination of neglect leading to exploitation. I just want to nudge it in the direction of open standards and make the whole notion of proprietary schemes unworkable. Cheers, Rex At 2:05 PM -0400 6/10/08, Timothy Grapes wrote: >Got to thinking about this after our calls. On one hand, I'd prefer to get >RM out there and start testing it out in the "medical resource" world a >while first to see how it fares. The practitioners that helped define RM >believe RM likely meets the basic requirements for those resource types. >Let's find out and let that drive the need if it exists. > >Thanks, >Tim > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:30 AM >To: emergency-msg@lists.oasis-open.org >Subject: [emergency-msg] Meeting Today > >Hi Folks, > >I wanted to remind you that we have a meting scheduled today, >immediately following the TC meeting on the same number. The only >things we have on our agenda are updates concerning implementations >of EDXL-RM and any new business. > >I have one thing in the realm of new business, which is to start >thinking about and discussing the possibility of a EDXL-Medical >Resource Messaging spec. I want to stress that this is purely >speculative at this point. There is a lot wheel-spinning going on >right now with the big feeders are jockeying around the federal feed >trough as if the $ being let out now by HHS are really setting the >stage for the next administration. > >So I would classify what is going on now as a misplaced feeding >frenzy, especially because HHS's recently released Strategic HIT Plan >for 2008-2010 does not even mention the National Medical Disaster >System (NMDS) which S. 3678 of 12/06 moved to HHS from DHS. The $1B >being distributed by HHS nationwide now, while touted as supporting >HIT is not, as far as I know, restricted to being used solely for >HIT, so I suspect it is actually just general support which will keep >a lot of hospital systems, which are perpetually locked in cash flow >difficulties, afloat. > >Regardless, I don't see much happening in relation to connecting >healthcare to emergency management until next year at the soonest, in >terms of establishing the kind of studies that have marked the >Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) in the last four years, >and I would certainly hope that someone has the common sense to study >the problem before launching any new programs. That also makes it >premature for us to initiate anything, so I'm just suggesting that we >keep an eye on the situation. > >Cheers, >Rex >-- >Rex Brooks >President, CEO >Starbourne Communications Design >GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison >Berkeley, CA 94702 >Tel: 510-898-0670 > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that >generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS >at: >https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php -- Rex Brooks President, CEO Starbourne Communications Design GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel: 510-898-0670 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that generates this mail. You may a link to this group and all your TCs in OASIS at: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php
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