the only way for a NEW ROUTER COMPANY to break into the market is to FOLLOW the SPECS
Or develop new specs, that are so compelling that the organization adopts new standards. USB...Firewire...
Now how is that different from what CCHIT does
It's not what it
does, it's what it
is.
From the CCHIT website: It currently operates with 23 paid staff, a nine-member volunteer Board of Trustees, 21 volunteer Commissioners who represent all sectors of health IT and provide strategic guidance and oversight for the certification process and criteria, and 170 volunteers who serve on 15 workgroups.
That's it. The whole organization. The IEEE has 300 local IEEE sections, 1,300 technical chapters, and 300 annual IEEE conferences worldwide.
From the CCHIT website: The roles of the commissioners are to represent all stakeholders..
Let's
look at the commissioners. " Director, Medical Informatics", "President and Chief Medical Officer", "Senior Program Manager, Intel", " Professor and Assistant Dean, Department of Medicine", "Co-CEO, SureScripts", "Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Siemens", and so on. Not a single practicing physician, and not even an organization in which the commissioner has regular contact with a practicing physician-user.
Anyone ever asked you to joint CCHIT, submit input, revise standards? Didn't think so. Are we experts -- hell, yes!
By the way, I thought capitalizing words in a discussion was shouting. Are you shouting at us?
