Re: FYI - re Health IT and Usability

These are ALL examples of the importance of the usability community's  
participation in health IT initiatives by the HHS right now. I urge  
all of you to cc the individual at the HHS email address I posted  
previously. Without the participation of you - the professional UI  
community, HHS efforts to affect healthcare costs in the United States  
may be a lot less than the overwhelming majority of Americans (on all  
sides of the healthcare reform issue) wish it to be.

Again, that email address (and I believe there is an actual human  
being at this address) is:

[email protected]

...and if anybody here is going to MacWorld in San Francisco, let me  
know. I'd love to meet up with BayCHI folks there.

Best,
LjR






On Feb 11, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Greg Austin wrote:

> The publishing of those comments lagged behind their upload by at  
> least a week. Therefore, they are not coded to instantaneously  
> publish information, like a blog is--these comments are being  
> received by an entity, then later published by an entity. The  
> mechanism (and reason) for that intermediary step can only be  
> construed as censorship.
>
> Greg
> On Feb 8, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Wendy Cown wrote:
>
>> I see several comments by Greg on the post.  Are there more that  
>> are being
>> suppressed?  Some that aren't even relevant to the conversation  
>> have been
>> approved so I see no censorship or stifling by politics happening  
>> in this
>> case.
>>
>> Wendy
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Brian Krause <[email protected]>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The comment process for federal regulations predates the Internet  
>>> and was
>>> not designed to be interactive.  The commenters respond to the  
>>> proposal, not
>>> to each other.
>>>
>>> Back in the days of paper, the government would collect the  
>>> comments, and
>>> then publish them in print at the end of the comment period.  The  
>>> regulators
>>> and the public get the same printed copy.
>>>
>>> To the folks at regulations.gov, publishing batches of comments  
>>> seems like
>>> a great step forward, though obviously it doesn't compare with  
>>> instantly
>>> updated comments like you'd find on a blog.
>>>
>>> I hope this doesn't discourage anybody from participating.
>>>
>>> --Brian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 8, 2010, at 4:52 AM, Greg Austin wrote:
>>>
>>> Galileo demonstrated: Throughout history science has been stifled by
>>>> politics.
>>>>
>>>> Similarly, these HHS people don't want the truth and will fight to
>>>> suppress it; too much money is involved in propagating lies. Not so
>>>> different from other other corporatist organizations.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>> On Feb 7, 2010, at 1:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ugh. Suggesting to all, though, this is maybe not a reason to
>>>>> discontinue commenting... including making note of just what
>>>>> happened here. I think it's precisely why the HHS needs to hear  
>>>>> from
>>>>> usability people (often and loudly). Thank you for making an  
>>>>> effort,
>>>>> though.
>>>>>
>>>>> ljr
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Greg Austin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I left multiple comments on that site--however, they have been
>>>>>> censored, or otherwise not approved by the admin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Real classy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Greg
>>>>>> On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:51 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello all.
>>>>>>> You may find the following on the US government's Health IT  
>>>>>>> site of
>>>>>>> particular interest. I hope that folks here will consider
>>>>>>> contributing. Unless we in the usability field are take the  
>>>>>>> time to
>>>>>>> contribute, we may well see yet more unusable versions of
>>>>>>> everybody's
>>>>>>> idea of the 'best' electronic medical record.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>> http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/onc/index.php/2010/01/15/public-comments-period-
>>>> open/comment-page-1/#comment-495
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>> ljr
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>>>>>> Greg Austin
>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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