RE: [egov] RE: [ihc] RE: [egov] US Bill to sponsor interoperability in healthcare funding.

Title: RE: [ihc] RE: [egov] US Bill to sponsor interoperability in healthcare
funding.

You all are so smart. When placed in the context
below, it all makes perfect sense – and I can’t say I blame the
folks in DC.

 

Brett

 

From: Jerome Judith -
e-Government Unit - [mailto:] 

Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 1:25
AM

To: David
 Webber (XML); ; Chiusano Joseph; Brett
Trusko; ; eGov OASIS

Subject: RE: [egov] RE: [ihc] RE:
[egov] US Bill to sponsor interoperability in healthcare funding.

 

All,

 

I just reread the contentious
name change and believe that I understand the nuance of the meaning.  The
issue of a National (capital N) health service is a highly contentious and
politicised issue in the US. 
Hillary Clinton got skewered for making substantive proposals for it in her
initial years as First Lady.  The Republicans are totally opposed to
it.  Therefore to have the terms National and Health together creates an
immediate knee-jerk, hackle-raising political response no matter what the
original intent may have been.  The term Nationwide inserts a geographic
context.  It implies coverage rather than governance. This is a much more
defused way of describing it. Therefore, the assumption is that a Nationwide
Information Network covers the entire country as opposed to individual
Statewide systems or more grassroots endeavours.

 

Hope this helps.  BTW,
I’m a dual national (U.S.
and U.K.). 
Just thought you might want to know with what authority I insert this.

 

All the best,

Judy Jerome

 

Judith A.
Jerome

Geographic
Information Specialist

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-----Original Message-----

From: David
 Webber (XML) [mailto:] 

Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 3:23
AM

To: ; 'Chiusano
Joseph'; 'Brett Trusko'; ; 'eGov OASIS'

Subject: Re: [egov] RE: [ihc] RE:
[egov] US Bill to sponsor interoperability in healthcare funding.

 

Peter,

 

My guess would be that
here in the US
"National" means Federal Government,

whereas "Nationwide"
implies something the States and care providers 

themselves are doing, and
not federally managed.

 

The republicans are
"small government" focused ; -)

 

DW

----- Original Message
----- 

From: Peter F Brown

To: 'Chiusano
Joseph' ; 'Brett Trusko' ; 
; 'eGov
OASIS' 

Sent:
Thursday, June 16, 2005 6:23 PM

Subject:
RE: [egov] RE: [ihc] RE: [egov] US Bill to sponsor interoperability in
healthcare funding.

 

Doesn't want
to imply...that the US has a
national (read "public", certainly in Europe)
health service? rather than a nationwide health service...

 

-Peter

 

From: Chiusano
Joseph [mailto:] 

Sent: 15 June 2005 04:54

To: Brett Trusko; ; eGov OASIS

Subject: [egov] RE: [ihc] RE: [egov]
US Bill to sponsor interoperability in healthcare funding.

Hi Brett,

 

I believe it may simply
be a matter of semantics. The person who made the statement (or as I understand
the statement to mean) was Mary Forbes. She said that the name change was made
because they did not want to imply ______ (and it's that blank that I don't
recall).

 

Hope that helps - at
least a bit.

 

Joe

From:
Brett Trusko [mailto:]

Sent: Tue 6/14/2005 10:43 PM

To: Chiusano Joseph;
; 'eGov OASIS'

Subject: RE: [ihc] RE: [egov] US
Bill to sponsor interoperability in healthcare funding.

Hi Joe, I suppose that change means something, but I
don't know what it is?

Brett

-----Original Message-----

From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:]

Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:04 AM

To: ; eGov OASIS

Subject: [ihc] RE: [egov] US Bill to sponsor interoperability in healthcare

funding.

I understand from yesterday's Data Reference Model (DRM) Public Forum

that the National Health Information Network is now going to be referred

to as the Nationwide Health Information Network.

Joe

Joseph Chiusano

Booz Allen Hamilton

Visit us online@ http://www.boozallen.com

> -----Original Message-----

> From: David Webber (XML) [mailto:]

> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:54 AM

> To: ; eGov OASIS

> Subject: [egov] US Bill to sponsor interoperability in

> healthcare funding.

>

> FYI - this obviously would be very good for OASIS specifications.

>

> DW

>

> (June 13, 2005) The federal government would provide $250

> million in grants--and another $250 million in loans--in each

> fiscal year from 2006 through 2011 to support development of

> a national health information network under legislation

> introduced in the Senate. Grant recipients would be required

> to provide matching funds of at least 20%.

> Senate Bill 1223 from Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) also

> would authorize the government to adopt standards that

> promote interoperability of information systems within two

> years of adoption.

>

> The legislation further would create the Office of Health

> Information Technology within the executive office of the

> president. Duties of the office would be similar to those of

> the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

> Technology within the Department of Health and Human Services.

>

> The bill has been referred to the Senate Health, Education,

> Labor and Pensions Committee. Full text is available at

> http://thomas.loc.gov.

>

> More legislation to promote development of a national health

> information network is expected from Sens. Olympia Snowe

> (R-Maine) and Debbie Stabenow (R-Mich.), and Majority Leader

> William Frist (R-Tenn.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).

>

>

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