Hi guys:
I take it that the "ACAC" is the win-ding at that fancy resort? We could have a round table discussion on the impact of these HIT forces and how to defeat them. For a conference, the slideshow can be condensed to half the slide volume, especially the 22 slide history part which can be all placed on ONE slide. CCHIT/P4P/eprescribing can together go into 18 slides and the beginning and ending parts into about 6 slides... or less.
Brian was nice enough to help redo the redo slideshow significantly, especially in the concluding remarks. Here is how I summarized the changes for him in an email-
1) I put in a Leavitt joke! (tasteful, of course)
2) Almost took out Mitt Romney (and his views on HIT) now that he's out. I left him in as he could be the next VP and it's nice to have a 2-Dem slide and a 2-Rep slide (i.e. "balance").
3) Deleted a repeat slide about Stark regulations.
4) Really, really condensed and improved the concluding remarks as suggested.
5) Changed the color of the index tabbed topics from yellow to dark gray.
6) Added a 7/17/2006 Market Watch slide stating that CCHIT certified EHRs increase costs.
7) Put Brian's name on the last slide.
Title: HIT_in_the_USA18.ppt
URL:
http://www.box.net/shared/static/cwejp2yo0k.pptBTW, tonight I'm sending a bouquet of flowers to our "spy" in Congress. According to her, the air of inevitability concerning CCHIT/P4P/e-prescribing is starting to thin out and crumble. In the last HHS meeting they stated that they will push in the first part of the year one last time [presumably on behalf of those that gave donations to Bush, like HIMSS], then give up and turn the paton over to the next president. She'll be emailing me more detailed information in the near future as things evolve.
Cheers!
Al
