So Dalton... three strikes...
...and you'll find somebody to replace this guy too?
Scandal-plagued eHeatlh Ontario is under new management. Robert Devitt, a former hospital CEO, takes over the reins today as the new interim president and CEO of the agency.**********
EHealth Ontario has been struggling to find its footing after a series of embarrassing revelations of excessive executive and consultant spending and after years of questionable progress in its goal to create electronic health records for Ontarians.
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"Back when they said they were going to build this thing, the other doctors in the room were very excited. Most, if not all of us, thought how nice it would be to access a patient's medical records anywhere, anytime. Frustrations relieved, a happy pallor fell over the room."Say, Dalton... when do we... and by we, I mean Ontario taxpayers... get that other billion dollars back?
"Then I mentioned the gun registry. Several groans later, most people were thinking about how many CT scanners a few billion could buy."
"Soon most had accepted it for what it was, the continuous subtle torment of our souls."
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7 comments:
You're a taxpayer? Funny, you never seem to be working.
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oh, nonny-mouse... that's it?
you're gonna go with the leftosphere's time-honoured... "you're a big poopyhead" gambit?
no wonder nobody takes you guys seriously.
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Actually, the idea of an electronic health record (ehr) is sound. I know, because I work in health care IT. I work for one of the largest healthcare IT solutions providers. WWe have ready made suites of software to provide every function a hospital or healthcare authority may need, including patient records.
Sounds to me that Ontario decided they had create their own system, rather than purchase one of the off the shelf, yet still customizable systems that exist, and there are many. I suspect that if they had chosen the latter, they would be done by now.
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"kai says... Sounds to me that Ontario decided they had create their own system, rather than purchase one of the off the shelf"
hmmm... sounds just like the way the federal liberals decided to piss away a billion or so dollars to track the rifles of farmers, duck hunters and target shooters.
a billion dollars for a database?
oh right... instead of going with a readily available turnkey solution they created a huge bureaucracy, staffed it with political appointees and awarded plummy contracts to particular corporate friends to reinvent the wheel.
funny how that works, huh?
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Criminal Liberal corruption, again.
Yeah, sounds like government. Most of our customers are private sector (read US). Thus, they buy turnkey, and rarely ever get into ground up custom solutions.
The longs registry is such a waste, and it sure sounds like what is happening in D'ontarioh!. Feel bad for you folks.
In the UK they tried the same approach, and then abandoned it in favour of commercially available turnkey solutions from an established health care IT provider.
Oh, and I laugh when I see those IBM ads that have been running lately trying to convince everyone that computers are needed in health care, and let IBM help you. LOL! IBM is late to the game, again. My employer has been doing HIS for over 20 years. The last time IBM got into the health care racket, their products bombed. But they do have a lot of "consultants".
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and we all know how the fiberals love their consultants.
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