Dear David,
A healthy sense of humor is a good start toward
creativity. Perhaps we can channel our energies into a set of concrete
recommendations.
With warm regards,
Peter
Peter L. Elkin, MD, FACP,
FACMI
Professor of
Medicine
Department
of Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
(507) 284-1551
Fax: (507) 284-5370
From: David RR Webber (XML)
[mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 9:15
PM
To: Elkin, Peter L., M.D.
Cc: ;
Brett Trusko,Ph.D.; Rex Brooks
Subject: RE: [ihc] Sorry I missed
yesterday's meeting-Note for October
Peter,
I hear the new plan under consideration is simply to outsource disaster
recovery and emergency response to the Chinese Army.
A few brigades would be airlifted in in the event of a disaster. The
Chinese troops have the advantage of requiring only 10% of the logistics support
that equivalent US forces need - which is vital when critical infrastructure is
destroyed.
Plus they are strongly experienced in typical events - floods, quake, fire
events and of course cost much less.
Locally heavy equipment and machinery would be provided by
Bechtel and Caterpillar as needed - and again these folks are very experienced
with working with Chinese teams.
OK - Ok - I'm just messing with you - but the scary thing is there's
probably someone in the adminstration I'm sure who really is working on the
feasiblity and comparison weighted scorecards....
; -)
DW
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Subject: RE: [ihc] Sorry I
missed yesterday's meeting-Note for October
From: "Elkin, Peter L., M.D."
<>
Date: Fri, June 06, 2008 1:44 pm
To: "Brett
Trusko, Ph.D." <>, "Rex
Brooks"
<>
Cc:
<>
Dear Rex,
This is quite
interesting. It would be useful to strategize about how
this should be
included into the HIT Strategic Plan for HHS. Also we
would be interested
in participating in the NSF conference.
Preparedness money seems to be
going away at HHS. If you have any
thoughts regarding the correct strategy
for disaster response this might
be another good topic for
discussion.
With warm regards,
Peter
Peter L. Elkin, MD,
FACP, FACMI
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of
Medicine
Baldwin 4B
Mayo Clinic
(507) 284-1551
fax: (507)
284-5370
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From: ihc-return-166-elkin.peter=
[mailto:ihc-return-166-elkin.peter=]
On
Behalf Of Brett Trusko, Ph.D.
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 11:41
AM
To: Rex Brooks
Cc:
Subject:
Re: [ihc] Sorry I missed yesterday's meeting-Note for October
I hear
this new fangled thing called the Internet can assist with
this type of
thing also. ;)
Brett
On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Rex Brooks
wrote:
> Hi Brett, Everyone,
>
> I'm sorry I missed
yesterday's scheduled meeting. I was actually
> out getting a blood
test and discovered that the lab had moved and
> so it took a lot
longer than I expected. I've heard there's this
> new fangled device
called a telephone you can use to check on such
> things. Imagine!
;-)
>
> Regardless, I saw the HHS release this week of the
Strategic HIT
> Plan for 2008-2012 and it includes "Population Health"
and I
> wondered if you all had noticed this?
>
> I am in
preliminary talks about a Collaborative Expedition Workshop
> at NSF in
October covering the domains related to Emergency
> Management:
>
EM Standards;
> Health Informatics;
> Geospatial Information
Systems; and,
> Building Information Modeling (BIM).
>
> I
am concerned that the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) is
> not
mentioned in the HHS HIT Strategic Plan although Senate Bill S.
> 3678:
Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act signed in December
> 2006, is
not mentioned.
>
> Responsibility for NDMS was transferred in
S3678 to HHS from DHS
> (Homeland Security), though some degree of
cooperative effort
> between the two cabinet departments is also
mandated.
>
> I'd like to draw attention to this, so as I go about
looking for
> experts from the Health community to recommend for this
October
> Workshop, I'd like to start a conversation in this group in
> relation to the HIT Strategic Plan, (not just NDMS) which I have
> attached, (both the plan and the summary).
>
>
Cheers,
> Rex
> --
> Rex Brooks
> President,
CEO
> Starbourne Communications Design
> GeoAddress: 1361-A
Addison
> Berkeley, CA 94702
> Tel:
>
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