Read the blog---Walsh suspects there's more shenanigans lurking in their code.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Man-made_tremor_shakes_Basel.html?cid=46232
If this can save so much money why isn't the health care industry already doing it? Are they really that stupid or are all the promises of big savings not likely to pan out?
It's a perfect example of the network effect. The savings can only materialize if everybody agrees on the same standard, getting past the usual 'what we are currently doing must be the standard' bickering.
Standardization efforts are hard because they combine technology, business and cultural issues. A successful standard has to find a balance between negative feedback of skepticism and low expectations resulting in unsatisfactory outcomes, and hyper-enthusiasm that can bring over-specified unworkable monsters.
Historically, the best outcomes occurred in a relatively uncrowded fields where early players made a wise strategic commitment to interoperability (c.f. the "rough concensus and working code" mantra of Internet standards).
The government might be a good neutral referee if it plays its hand well.
By the way, a working DRM would actually be a desirable feature of the electronic health record system---only you and your delegates should control the access to the records. It will be hard for the government to propose such access restrictions, because of the public distrust towards the digital art content control and government secrecy.
This is what happens when capital and goods can freely cross borders but people can't. Capital will simply chase poverty in a never ending circle around the globe.
Except that it is not as simple as that: a lot of Poles used to work in Ireland, which was one of the first EU countries that allowed labor migration from new Eastern EU members. Recently however, due to ecomomy tightening in Ireland, and relative economic boom in Poland, many Polish expatriates are returning eastward.
Labor cost is still important but not as much as it used to be: capital situation, tax incentives, closeness to large markets, etc., are gaining importance as a result of the current crisis.
Finally we can write spaghetti code that looks like spaghetti.
While 0.993 isn't very good, (0.993)^3 is pretty awsome.
(0.993)^3 would suck actually, resulting in 0.979---but fortunately the error rate is 1-(1-0.993)^3), i.e. a pretty awesome
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz