[mdlug] Obahma plan to digitize health care
Garry Stahl
tesral at comcast.net
Mon Jan 12 12:41:52 EST 2009
David Lane wrote:
> I was at Micro Center recently and met a couple the developed solutions for Med. Billing.
>
> Years ago I worked for a Doctor and the Med. Bill solution ran on SCO Unix.
>
> One problem with Digitizing Medical records is that someone has to sign them. and that establishes an
> audit trail of care.
>
> As for costs and the ablity to create a cost effective solution. I think every body will agree Linux offers
> robustness in solutions.
>
We also need openness. I, the patient should be able to read my medical
records as a plain text file. An open source cross platform readable
file system with a single format. Frankly, we have it, it is called ascii.
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