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Welcome, I'm glad you've dropped in.... David Soul (aka Bricoleur)
In this debate in CanadianEMR physicians take a stab at the problem being unable to fully utilize EMR technology due to the lack of
communication capability with other physicians and health providers,
hospital and community based information systems. According to the initial post by Alan Brookstone:
“The debate has raged over the need for a single standard EMR system
that all physicians could use vs. free market forces and many EMR
systems that are all built to certain standards with the ability to
trasfer information between systems”
that all physicians could use vs. free market forces and many EMR
systems that are all built to certain standards with the ability to
trasfer information between systems”
Personally, I’m on the side of Brian Nelligan from Interior Health Authoritywho registered this opinion:
We don’t need a single EMR, what we need are the vendors to agree to a format to export and import data.
You can find the discussion thread at: http://emruser.typepad.com/canadianemr/2004/05/practicing_in_e.html
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NASA image of the day
Curiosity at 'Cumberland'NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover's arm over the drilling target "Cumberland" during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (May 15, 2013). The rover team plans to use Curiosity's drill to collect a powdered sample from the interior of the rock for analysis by laboratory instruments inside the rover. This is the mission's second rock-drilling target. The rover drove from its position beside the first drilling target, "John Klein," to its position beside Cumberland with drives of 121 inches (308 centimeters) on Sol 273 (May 13) and 26.6 inches (67.5 centimeters) on Sol 275. Curiosity's total odometry on Mars is now 2,385 feet (727 meters). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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