There is an excellent book from Richard Heeks (UK) on the Government and
the Information age. I don't have the ref with me, but you should easily
find it on the net...
Also, the George Pompidou Hospital in Paris, has been fully
computerised, then humanised, and now they claim it works. I don't have
pointers. I tried to look for pointers but couldn't find any. I don't
have much bandwidth so if someone can...
Cheers
franck(_at_)sopac(_dot_)org
On 12 Sep 2001 10:27:57 -0400, Dan Kolis wrote:
It was said by franck(_at_)sopac(_dot_)org earlier today:
There has been many disaster happening in the past, like in Turkey, or
like in Taiwan earthquake where a submarine cable was cut. I think it is
time that the Internet become serious and reliable and that the IETF
work on internet and disaster to ensure absolute reliability for
emergency services which was not the case for the Vanderbilt Medical
Center for example. Can you trust your life on the Internet succesfully
delivering a piece of information or at least telling you that it was
successfully delivered or not?
Dan K says:
Here in Ontario, Canada in principle there is a socialized medical system,
so in theory there should be lots of cooperation. But through my consulting
I became exposed to the complete failure of a bizzare failed 'standard'
called HL7 for health care information. Read and weep at:
http://www.hl7.org/