FYI (01)
RE: What to ask about new bill? (02)
James: (03)
I think the most prudent thing for me to do is pass this inquiry on to
lists of contacts who are active in reform in their various spheres of
influence. I'll also post to my LinkedIn Medical Banking and Open
Health Care groups, blog it at MBlog, etc. Thanks for the heads up. (04)
I'd suggest using #HarkinHealthcare and #HealthcareReform as hashtags
on twitter and identi.ca for any folks who tweet and/or post (does
laconi.ca have a"cool post verb" yet?). (05)
Best regards, (06)
Ed Dodds (07)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Nennemann <jnennemann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Subject: Town hall meeting - what to ask about new bill?
To: dodds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (08)
Ed, (09)
I subscribe to your LinuxMedNews feed and appreciate you being a hub
of info for OSS Medical Software. I am concerned about the development
of a cartel system with certification and even more concerned that so
many people are missing the boat when it comes to healthcare reform.
Review the expenses of any small rural hospital (like the one I work
at) and you will find all sorts of archaic uses of technology by
government agencies. For instance, paying a company to act as a secure
bridge between medicare and the hospital's billing department just to
transmit billing info. Haven't these people ever heard of SSL? WebDAV?
SSH?... and on? There are still some services we use that use a
dial-up connection to transmit info! (010)
Today at 4 p.m. central, Senator Tom Harkin will be holding a Town
Hall meeting about health care reform at my facility. What are some
talking points and questions to put to him? Are there some issues with
the current bill that are in favor of or are against the OSS movement?
How can we get more people to recognize that we don't need 100+ EMR
software companies trying to re-invent the wheel? (011)
Best regards, (012)
-James Nennemann
Hamburg, IA (013)
BWT - I hope to record the meeting in HD and post it publicly. I will
send you a link if the recording comes out.
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