“I am sure that everyone is thinking their plan brings Health IT to simplicity, and I would even assert that each plan would succeed. The problem is we don’t all have the same plan, thus your efforts to take us down your plan toward your simplicity takes everyone off of my plan toward my simplicity (metaphorically speaking you vs me). Multiply this by the 100 some plans in play, and we get a mess.
This is not specifically bad, because every individual plan has some specific perspective on the problem that exposes a specific need. It is only with these divergences that we get to see what the other plan has to offer. Ultimately we get course corrections that are good. Good examples can be seen in the standards around ‘documents’, going back to text documents (with various character encodings).”
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John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy, 20 July 2011
