Just a rambling thought here, but can we get the ones we have now tweaked and working better first? This is some of what appears to me anyway as continued fractorization with even more platforms and development added to the already full world of development with medical records. It would just be nice to have some unification instead of constant “I have a better idea” and building a new platform almost from the ground up. This project is to create a program to work and be 
compatible with an iPhone solution. The basis of the development goes back to the Indivo platform.
There’s nothing wrong with innovation, but how much further can we “innovate” the poor doctors on rapid platforms. They barely get used to one system with a multitude of updates and then the carpet gets yanked for “something different”? I guess on the positive side here too jobs get created so with that in tuck I hope there’s technology created that may be useful.
Don’t forget though that this is not the only game in town, it just might be one of a few that received grants and federal funds for developing a program of this type and private industry and a whole lump of others are in the same pursuit. When the next device hits the market, will there be new infrastructures immediately set to task?
Competition is grand and breeds innovation, but don’t forget the audience who will buy in, this case we have doctors and patients. We have people at so very many different levels. As an example, our Congress is just now trying to deal with laws restricting government employees from using peer to peer networks, which is a huge security issue not to mention a distraction from work.
Breaking News: House Passed a Bill to Prevent Government Employees From Using Peer to Peer File Sharing!
Right now we have radiation devices needing software attention as some are over exposing patients, we have implanted devices with software needed attention too and I just think if we perhaps focused on getting the infrastructure we use today working correctly before throwing a whole new ball game at folks, we would be miles ahead. Who knows where we will be in 4 years from now too the the project mentioned above could be vastly outdated, nobody knows.
This is my opinion only here, but we certainly have enough folks willing to throw money around to fund a lot of things without a current structure that is working good enough, so why scatter so soon? We could also end up with way too many choices and not end up doing anything with the glut of software and platforms out there too, and that is probably the scariest potential situation we could see, but it could be right here in the making today.
I just hate to see taxpayer money thrown perhaps somewhat aimlessly without a full collaboration of efforts for continuity. That’s part of what is missing today continuity and collaboration, it’s more about competition and who can build the “best” medical records system.
Those who don’t participate at some level don’t know the difference with how development is moving rapidly toward the patient and data documentation, thus we get ideas or hypothesis on the road to nowhere, and yes one more blog to ask for input, right next to the other 100 that are there asking too. (grin).
Take it from someone who has written some healthcare code and technology, this stuff doesn’t arrive instantly and is not without a ton of bugs to iron out. BD
Boston, Mass. -- Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School will lead the efforts of a $15 million grant recently announced from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support research and development of a new health care information technology infrastructure. The grant is one of four awarded through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to address key challenges in adoption and meaningful use of health IT and is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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