CUBRC helping to computerize health information

An article on United Press International news service on efforts by the U.S. government to computerize health information in order to deal more effectively with a bioterrorist attack or a pandemic reports the Calspan-UB Research Center has been awarded a $297,000 Health IT Implementation Grant to identify and support the planning of regional data-sharing and inter-operability activities that could collect and analyze data to discover bioterrorism threats. The article quotes Michael Moskal, director of information sciences at CUBRC, who says "There are cultural issues and technical issues dealing with health care. There is every kind of influence on the integration of a system with many, many types of information, each having different uses -- fundamental differences in languages -- with doctors and health-care professionals each dealing with a different world. Medicine is a diverse art, truly an art that causes problems with data sharing. What's important to one doctor may not be important to another." Go to article.