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 Posted by Fred Trotter on Friday April 21, 2006 @ 06:31 PM
from the health-IT Successes dept.
David Brailer has resigned. MSNBC is reporting that 'Dr David Brailer, the man charged by President Bush with ensuring that half of all Americans have a portable electronic health record within a decade, is to step down two years after taking on the job...' This is a tremendous loss for the FOSS in medicine community, Brailer was well known as someone who "gets it". Digg this article
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Re: Brailer Resigns
by Ron on Friday April 21, 2006 @ 07:36 PM
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Pardon the (potential) pun, but is that why he "got" it?
I hate to be sanguine, but I've seen a lot of good scientific people get shoved out of their positions by this administration. It seems that every one who "gets it" in their respective field gets some type of grief for it by the adminstration. My question is, "Why did he leave?"
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Re: Brailer Resigns
by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Friday April 21, 2006 @ 09:43 PM
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Un-substantiated rumor has it that HHS Secretary Leavitt and him did not see eye to eye. -- IV
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Re: Brailer Resigns
by C.N.Guerriere,M.D on Tuesday May 16, 2006 @ 12:44 PM
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What about the barriers Clinton's administration
added with HIPPA regs.?
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Re: Brailer Resigns
by C.N.Guerriere,M.D on Tuesday May 16, 2006 @ 12:45 PM
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What about the barriers Clinton's administration
added with HIPPA regs.?
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Re: Brailer Resigns
by Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS on Saturday April 22, 2006 @ 09:41 PM
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Several anonymous offline comments indicate that Brailer may not have 'gotten it' and was pro-proprietary software all the way. I personally found him to be all over the map in his speeches. He seemed to be taking positions that appeared to be doomed to failure from a technology standpoint. My favorite was in an interview where he said something to the effect of: we're not going to enforce standards, but everything should work the same. Huh?
-- IV
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Re: Brailer Resigns
by anonymous coward on Monday April 24, 2006 @ 05:42 PM
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What basis is there for saying Brailer is someone who "gets it"? He spent a total of three years working his agenda nationally, building something that he thinks will take a decade to implement and is extremely vendor-focused (not doctor-focused). Then, he steps down while saying that the program is "mature"?
>He said on Thursday he was leaving his job as
>national co-ordinator for health information
>technology for family reasons and because the
>programme "is now mature and moving in the right
>direction".
Someone who gets it would know there is much more to be done, and wouldn't just leave a position that is so critical to healthcare at this point. If it were for personal reasons he could have just delegated like all the rest of us have to do. And surely it was not for political reasons, as he was playing that game well even before taking the position. Brailer simply couldn't cut handle this position.
Frankly, everything he did is worthless just because he didn't finish any job he started. Let all the credit go to the next person who actually finishes the job.
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