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Re: Boston Globe: hurdles in digitizing health records
by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Saturday January 03, @04:16AM

The other sticky issue is the government basically picking the winners and the losers. Especially with such a complex undertaking as health IT. I liken this to the government directly and massively putting itself in control of cell-phone or web-browser markets or research and development. It is unclear that the outcome would be that great and a tremendous amount of money would probably be wasted. Webreach's Mirth has probably done more for interoperability than anyone else and they did it without a dime of government money that I know of. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

-- IV

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