tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30539899.post215951063700293552..comments2022-07-08T02:07:28.326-07:00Comments on Dani's Perspective on SaaS: Occupy the Server Room! – The Cloud and Democratization of ITDani Shomronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11583137732143486946noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30539899.post-77278068394925747202012-02-13T22:21:09.140-08:002012-02-13T22:21:09.140-08:00I think Elaine missed the point. Well it came to c...I think Elaine missed the point. Well it came to cloud and I love it.!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03197258016488992564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30539899.post-35311501992962075852012-02-11T08:18:28.717-08:002012-02-11T08:18:28.717-08:00"Occupy the server room" is particularly..."Occupy the server room" is particularly relevant to health IT. In that domain, corporate and increasingly global health care providers, payers and vendors have locked up patient data and locked out health care consumers and clinicians. The data dictators have a lucrative business model that serves their financial interests while perpetuating the fragmentation of health care delivery and record keeping that has pushes quality Dow and prices up. The Obama administration including the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are on the right side of all these issues. But they are locked in an epic David meets Goliath struggle with corporate-backed political forces who view consumer-clinician joint control over access to health care services and data as the ultimate defeat. Elaine Blechman, President, Prosocial Applications, Professor Emerita, U. Colorado.Elaine Blechmanhttp://www.thesmartphr.comnoreply@blogger.com