LMN: Your Health Care Privacy, Security and Tax Dollars Are at Stake
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Ignacio Valdes
Nov 8, 2007, 10:18:07 AM11/8/07
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"A stark future awaits American health care if the Veterans Affairs
(VA) system and Cerner is allowed to go forward with announced plans
to replace the VA's successful public domain laboratory software in
need of update with a proprietary one. The VA would give large amounts
of cash that would greatly assist a single proprietary company in
dominating EHR software in both the public and private sector. A free,
thriving EHR ecosystem would be destroyed and replaced with a monopoly
or cartel at great expense in which the quality, privacy and security
of such software is a trade secret, un-examined and un-examinable. If
this is allowed, it could lead to Americans essentially renting their
own medical data back from the Cerners of the world at great expense."
(VA) system and Cerner is allowed to go forward with announced plans
to replace the VA's successful public domain laboratory software in
need of update with a proprietary one. The VA would give large amounts
of cash that would greatly assist a single proprietary company in
dominating EHR software in both the public and private sector. A free,
thriving EHR ecosystem would be destroyed and replaced with a monopoly
or cartel at great expense in which the quality, privacy and security
of such software is a trade secret, un-examined and un-examinable. If
this is allowed, it could lead to Americans essentially renting their
own medical data back from the Cerners of the world at great expense."
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