David,
Thanks for finally speaking up. To a large extent this is what is needed. Without others speaking up than our efforts are for naught. Whether is be about some bug in the works that makes everyone's life less productive or someone like me who really stuck my neck out on the line to try and warn the entire community here we need you coat-tailers to speak up and get involved; at least a little.
You don't have to be the post master general like Bert. But when something like the EULA puts us all at risk of loosing the program that we are all charting in, then darn it you folks have to get in here and lend a hand. To not do so is pretty cheap and leaves the few of us who are doing the heavy lifting here, with our fannies hanging out in the breeze. I still think of Linda Hamilton in the first terminator whenever I think of the termination clause in the EULA, at the end when she finally defeats him in the crusher; "You're terminated F@&#er!" It is very frightening.
And here's the real deal. After what we experienced here I felt it would have been immoral of me, Nancy too, we both did, if we didn't speak up and say something. We're talking about over a thousand providers or practices worth of patients and providers being less than properly secure in one of the most important tools in their practices, their charts and charting software. The only reason we are having this discuss about the EULA is because we didn't just go hide under some rock and leave everybody else to simply fend for themselves. And like Bert after sticking our necks out like that Nancy and I really never got a real thanks from anyone other than this tight little group of regulars who obviously said their thanks be engaging with us in lively discussion to keep important topics alive.
Whether it is Dr Al with his fight to stand up against CCHIT for all providers and patients, Village Medical warning others about a legal document that may one day effect them greatly, Bert and Vinny with their great tech advice, it would be really nice if a few others would get involved. If you don't get involved then you have no right to bitch, right?
I'm trying to write to the local medical society, catch the attention of our local NBC affiliate about CCHIT and Vaccine Registries and some local elected reps. And as I've said in some other threads, I have created that handout for our patients to warn them about all this CCHIT, have you made one up and started to hand it out. Things like CCHIT hide incidously in backrooms of some industry few while the public knows nothing of them until it is too late. We who now know and know better have an ethical obligation to speak up and warn the general public here before it is all too late.
Either we open our mouths and get cracking or continue to bend over, because the powers that be certainly have providers and citizens in their sights for more pain. Centralized databases of people's health information indeed. Imagine where we would be today if Paul Revere, Ben Franklin and a host of others choose to sit the darn thing out. This is serious CCHIT and we all need to get off our fannies, roll up our sleeves and get in here.
Anyway your brother must be a very smart, but masacistic kind of guy to not just follow the pack and buy some piece of garbage Chevy. It's MOPAR or No Car! Kind of like us NY Ranger fans. And you must have a good perspective on life and care about the issues we talk about here if you are smart enough to be a doc and apperciate the finer things in life like Python. So come on, don't be like the parrott nailed to the bloody perch ready to be pushing up the daisies. It is the combined voices that count and make a difference and we need each and everyone of you out there. Otherwise, Open Wide because here comes lots a bad CCHIT my friend, and it won't taste very good going down.....
Good Night and Good Luck,
Paul
