Have you seen those GE adds with the patient suddenly exposed to an auditorium full of doctors? Kind of ironic, I think. But anyway, a large fraction of the verbiage in the "stimulus bill" was taken up with describing the establishment of such a data base. It didn't take much of a tin hat to see the implication that if the data base was there, it would be used, and it would in fact be an instrument of government control. ( Litttttle tiny tin hat. ) I presume that GE is enjoying the largesse of the stimulus bill, even if the news of this is not coming to me in any other way.
My brother-in-law worked on GE’s medical software for a couple of years now it is going to come back to bite us all in the....