[mdlug] Obahma plan to digitize health care

[David Lane]

I just got dental xrays they were digital.

That was way cool. and cost effective.

Thumb drive for medical? 

David C. Lane




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From: Garry Stahl <tesral at comcast.net>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:41:52 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Obahma plan to digitize health care

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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