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From Former Epic Employee: “Re: ICE. Has issued an RFI for an EHR. Who on earth would be willing to bid for this PR nightmare?” An RFI attachment says that ICE Health Service Corps uses EClinicalWorks for its EHR and dental systems and Fusion Health for pharmacy and MAR. The new system must integrate with other DHS platforms, which raises potential HIPAA flags. It also includes an “optional surge support” requirement, presumably to support spikes in detainee count. Vendors may balk that the government gets unlimited rights to their source code.
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Did anyone else notice that the RFI notice for the ICE EHR misspelled “information” in the bolded notice statement clarifying it is not an RFP?
RE: Who on earth would be willing to bid for this PR nightmare?”
51% of the voters would… I think they are called MAGAmites. or maybe ‘Oracleites’…
At the risk (OK, certainty) of being that guy, 49.8% of voters. It was a plurality, not a majority. Unless I’m misreading your grouping.
Yes 51% of the VOTERS. That’s a majority of those who care enough to get involved.
It was 77.3 million of 155.2 million who voted for POTUS. Half would be 77.6 million even if you’re using the shorthand of rounding any value >50% to “51%.”
If you only count those who vote for major parties as voters (reasonable as far as who affects results, not reasonable without saying so) then you’re within standard rounding where 50.8% (77.3 million/152.3 million) voted that way. If that’s what you mean, feel free to do so but don’t be surprised when a self-identified “that guy” nitpicks on the terminology.
Crunch the numbers anyway you want, but experience shows that when the govt puts out a bucket o money, (and this will be a big one) the whales (pigs?) will line up no matter the PR concerns.
Whoa…Don’t let 51% of the voters have there way (I say this jokingly). I live in Missouri where 51%+ of the voters of this state wanted certain rights enshrined in the state’s constitution this last election cycle and the state government basically said “We don’t care, not going to do what the voters wanted”. If you live in Missouri you know exactly what to initiatives were on the last ballot that our “Government” decided that they didn’t care what the voters said…
Re: USCDI Version 6
I wouldn’t be surprised to see various organizations discovering a wide array of challenges in implementing this version. Strictly technical you understand. After all, HL7 version 3 had endless problems and never received the uptake that ver. 2.x did.
Not that this is advice. No!