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Subject: RE: [ihc] Sorry I missed yesterday's meeting-Note for October


Agreed.

I hadn't thought of it that way. Pretty expensive airlift though. ;-)

Cheers,
Rex

At 9:15 AM -0500 6/9/08, Elkin, Peter L., M.D. wrote:
>Dear David,
>
>A healthy sense of humor is a good start toward creativity.  Perhaps 
>we can channel our energies into a set of concrete recommendations.
>
>With warm regards,
>
>Peter
>
>
>Peter L. Elkin, MD, FACP, FACMI
>Professor of Medicine
>Department of Internal Medicine
>Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
>(507) 284-1551
>Fax: (507) 284-5370
>
>
>
>From: David RR Webber (XML) [mailto:david@drrw.info]
>Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 9:15 PM
>To: Elkin, Peter L., M.D.
>Cc: ihc@lists.oasis-open.org; Brett Trusko,Ph.D.; Rex Brooks
>Subject: RE: [ihc] Sorry I missed yesterday's meeting-Note for October
>
>Peter,
>
>I hear the new plan under consideration is simply to outsource 
>disaster recovery and emergency response to the Chinese Army.
>
>A few brigades would be airlifted in in the event of a disaster. 
>The Chinese troops have the advantage of requiring only 10% of the 
>logistics support that equivalent US forces need - which is vital 
>when critical infrastructure is destroyed.
>
>Plus they are strongly experienced in typical events - floods, 
>quake, fire events and of course cost much less.
>
>Locally heavy equipment and machinery would be provided by Bechtel 
>and Caterpillar as needed - and again these folks are very 
>experienced with working with Chinese teams.
>
>OK - Ok - I'm just messing with you - but the scary thing is there's 
>probably someone in the adminstration I'm sure who really is working 
>on the feasiblity and comparison weighted scorecards....
>
>; -)
>
>DW
>
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: RE: [ihc] Sorry I missed yesterday's meeting-Note for October
>From: "Elkin, Peter L., M.D." <Elkin.Peter@mayo.edu>
>Date: Fri, June 06, 2008 1:44 pm
>To: "Brett Trusko,  Ph.D." <brett.trusko@oasis-open.org>,  "Rex Brooks"
><rexb@starbourne.com>
>Cc: <ihc@lists.oasis-open.org>
>
>Dear Rex,
>
>This is quite interesting. It would be useful to strategize about how
>this should be included into the HIT Strategic Plan for HHS. Also we
>would be interested in participating in the NSF conference.
>Preparedness money seems to be going away at HHS. If you have any
>thoughts regarding the correct strategy for disaster response this might
>be another good topic for discussion.
>
>With warm regards,
>
>Peter
>
>Peter L. Elkin, MD, FACP, FACMI
>Professor of Medicine
>Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
>Baldwin 4B
>Mayo Clinic
>(507) 284-1551
>fax: (507) 284-5370
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:<http://email.secureserver.net/pcompose.php#Compose>ihc-return-166-elkin.peter=mayo.edu@lists.oasis-open.org] 
>On
>Behalf Of Brett Trusko, Ph.D.
>Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 11:41 AM
>To: Rex Brooks
>Cc: 
><http://email.secureserver.net/pcompose.php#Compose>ihc@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [ihc] Sorry I missed yesterday's meeting-Note for October
>
>I hear this new fangled thing called the Internet can assist with
>this type of thing also. ;)
>
>Brett
>On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Rex Brooks wrote:
>
>>  Hi Brett, Everyone,
>>
>>  I'm sorry I missed yesterday's scheduled meeting. I was actually
>>  out getting a blood test and discovered that the lab had moved and
>>  so it took a lot longer than I expected. I've heard there's this
>>  new fangled device called a telephone you can use to check on such
>>  things. Imagine! ;-)
>>
>>  Regardless, I saw the HHS release this week of the Strategic HIT
>>  Plan for 2008-2012 and it includes "Population Health" and I
>>  wondered if you all had noticed this?
>>
>>  I am in preliminary talks about a Collaborative Expedition Workshop
>>  at NSF in October covering the domains related to Emergency
>  > Management:
>>  EM Standards;
>>  Health Informatics;
>>  Geospatial Information Systems; and,
>>  Building Information Modeling (BIM).
>>
>>  I am concerned that the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) is
>>  not mentioned in the HHS HIT Strategic Plan although Senate Bill S.
>>  3678: Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act signed in December
>>  2006, is not mentioned.
>>
>>  Responsibility for NDMS was transferred in S3678 to HHS from DHS
>>  (Homeland Security), though some degree of cooperative effort
>>  between the two cabinet departments is also mandated.
>>
>>  I'd like to draw attention to this, so as I go about looking for
>>  experts from the Health community to recommend for this October
>>  Workshop, I'd like to start a conversation in this group in
>>  relation to the HIT Strategic Plan, (not just NDMS) which I have
>>  attached, (both the plan and the summary).
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>  Rex
>>  --
>>  Rex Brooks
>>  President, CEO
>>  Starbourne Communications Design
>>  GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
>>  Berkeley, CA 94702
>>  Tel:
>>  510-898-0670<HITStrategicPlan.pdf><HITStrategicPlanSummary.pdf>-------
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