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Incorrect citation

Dana, the Healthcare Renewal posts you linked were mine ("an effort
in New Jersey to require CCHIT certification" and "failure to be hired
by vendor NextGen in 2004").

Klepper did write the post at
http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog
/2009/06/the-health-industrys-achilles-heel.html .

Also note I wasn't "incensed" by my failure to be called back by this
company after the initial call. That's their right. In that several-
months-old post and others at Healthcare Renewal I was pointing out
that the vendor leaders can be patronizing and irritating, and have (for
at least since I started in medical informatics in 1992) not optimally
leveraged a pool of medical informatics talent to their own detriment.
It's sad to watch, as patients end up suffering.

And the vendor execs sometimes also exaggerate their credentials as I
wrote. When I see a HIT exec claiming a mysterious "American
Medical Informatics Certification for Health Information Technology"
while medical professionals dedicate several years of our lives to gain
medical informatics expertise through graduate or post graduate
training, it's quite disappointing.

Use of my months old Nextgen-related post to insinuate
"disgruntlement" is a time-honored technique of ad hominem. It's
usually done to discredit a person's arguments, but in this case all I
did was ask questions as shown. So I am unsure of the purpose of the
links to that old post in CCHIT's reply to my questions about the
provenance of the NJ Bill. "Snarling but unrugged individualism"
might be an apt description of the technique.

Scot
MedInformaticsMD

Posted by: scotsilv   Posted on: 06/15/09  (Edited: 06/16/2009 @ 06:05) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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