Just to add....I heard the same as Adam re the offer to the NHS, in my
case not from head office of the VHA but from the VHA Director in New York
Harbor when we visited there. It was well known in the VHA top brass, I
assume.
I also would like to support Adam's point about the VHA EPR being a super
system..
Calum
The guy who was Director of NPfIT (Nat. Prog. for IT) for the NHS/Dpt of
> Health in the early Noughties was called Richard Grainger (not sure if
> that's spelled correctly.) He got some press comment for having the
> highest salary in the civil service - from memory.....or was it just one
> of the highest......
>
> as ever Calum
>
>>From Adam to AAHPN...
>>
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>> From: Oliver,AJ
>> Sent: Mon 28/05/2012 19:43
>> To: Foubister,T
>> Subject: VHA and EHR
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Could you forward to the AAHPN - thanks.
>>
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>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Re. the VHA and the electronic health record. The VHA would have offered
>> it to the NHS for free in the mid 2000s. This is because they saw it as
>> sharing with another public body. In return, they would have wanted the
>> NHS to share future developments of its EHR with the VHA. This is a
>> fact.
>> Jonathan Perlin, then Under-Secretary of the VHA told me this personally
>> in 2005. I followed up with the UK Department of Health hierarchy at the
>> time. After a long pursuit, the head of IT (my mind has gone blank on is
>> name, but he's famous in UK health policy) told me that they didn't
>> pursue
>> the VHA option because they thought the operating system as old
>> fashioned.
>> I'm not a computer expert so I can't really comment too much on that.
>> What
>> I can say is that the VHA EHR is fantastic. It is used for far, far, far
>> more than just billing purposes. I was suspicious about motivations, but
>> nobody was interested then, not even some very senior professors who
>> might
>> have been able to exercise some influence (but probably not). Had they
>> done so, who knows? They might have saved the NHS billions.
>>
>> I'm not sure if the VHA would have offered it to the US public sector
>> for
>> free. Jonathan didn't mention that. I suspect they would have, but I
>> don't
>> know.
>>
>> I very much doubt that the VHA would have offered it to the US (or any
>> private) sector for free.
>>
>> Salute
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
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