IT Companies Vie for South African EHR Contract

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IT Companies Vie for South African EHR Contract

Posted Jun 29th 2006 5:31PM by Catherine Calacanis

Leading health-care IT companies are lining up to bid for a South African government contract to provide an electronic health record (EHR) system for patients using public hospitals and clinics.

As in the U.S. most patient records in South Africa are paper-based, and hospitals that already use electronic records employ systems that are not integrated across facilities.

Earlier this month, the South African government issued a call for proposals for an EHR. In attendance at that briefing meeting were South African IT firms, including Dimension Data and Business Connexion, as well as foreign companies including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Sun Microsoft.

Reader Comments

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1. Maybe, US will make EHR available for everyone it's OWN citizen?

Posted at 10:31AM on Jul 1st 2006 by Investigator

2. All this stuff with EHR makes the TOTALLY private information on people's health easily accessible for numerous national/international police agencies (AND criminal or business clans connected with them).

This means that ANYONE interested in some person's life can easily acess his/her health history and status, in addition to his/her credit and banking history and status, already availible through the insurance databases. At least, it is the situation in USA.

So, the step described above will make privacy even less real than now. The positive effects are obvious, while the negative ones are poorly even imagined by anyone, not even discussed.

This is the main problem of our naive society - the bigger half of it does not even THINK of what could IT do with their personal freedom.

Posted at 5:41PM on Jul 8th 2006 by James Cinet

3. Further privacy is becoming less private (?). The term "privacy" is changing. So we have only to stay and pray god that politicians will change their mind

Posted at 7:17AM on Jul 11th 2006 by Richard Hamp

4. Who concerns with sponsorship whole this?

Posted at 7:33AM on Jul 20th 2006 by IT_lover

5. I think that US companies have priveleged condition, so the winner will be definetely from US.

Posted at 8:03AM on Jul 22nd 2006 by Lipo

6. As long as we are on the subject of "free," we would be remiss if we did not at least mention another government-supported program. The Doctors Office Quality Information Technology (DOQ-IT) program is a special initiative sponsored by CMS and carried out by Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) in each state. DOQ-IT provides consultative services for EHR selection and implementation assistance for small and medium-sized primary care clinics.

Posted at 6:00AM on Jul 23rd 2006 by LordAxe

7. Always considered that the developed countries must help less developed... Because we are all of people, and all live on one planet

Posted at 8:02AM on Jul 23rd 2006 by Strider

8. Interestingly, what capital will inlay in development of this country

Posted at 10:50AM on Jul 24th 2006 by Satr!

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