The SHIN Saga of Health Reform: Common Problem, No Problem?

The SHIN Saga of Health Reform:
Common Problem, No Problem?

Nipawin - December 19, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis

brain
outburst
Our previous article dealt with the utter irresponsibility of the Saskatchewan Health Information

Network (SHIN), a brain outburst of the big brain Neil Gardner⁽¹⁾ and his friends at

Saskatchewan Health and at the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO).

$40-million
SHIN was hailed as the symbol of health care reform and the back bone of our health

system⁽²⁾. And this technological mind set has been responsible for today's dysfunctional

health care system. SHIN has been responsible for the mismanagement of some

$40-million⁽³⁾, however nobody has to be blamed since our big brains share the same so

called democratic philosophy that if money has been democratically allocated for SHIN then

we are all democratically responsible for any related failure.

no
problem
Our leaders follow the decrepit business philosophy that "an individual problem could be a

problem; but a common problem is no problem." So, our health care leaders have been

continuing to lie on their policy problems by shifting the blame and saying that the shortage

of nurses is a world wide problem and that the shortage of doctors is a problem across Canada.

this is
why
In the meantime, our health care leaders have been constructing a political, bureaucratic,

academic and business environment whereby all policy decisions are democratically

established, and where all these policies reward all the democratic stakeholders: politicians,

bureaucrats, researchers and businesses with the exception of the most important people, the

common people⁽⁴⁾ (and doctors and health care workers). And this is why we have a

dysfunctional health care system.

rules of
the private market
place
In a more subtle way, we have a basic problem in health care because we apply the so called

rules of the private market place for a supposed public health service, and the rules of the

private market place are set by corrupted politicians, bureaucrats, researchers and their allied

businesses⁽⁵⁾.

Big
Brother
Going back to SHIN, well, SHIN has no problem, it gets along with Saskatchewan Health

and SAHO. And now that SHIN has failed in its principle mandate to be our Big Brother

and set up the controversial computerized medical records for any resident in the province,

we have bigger bureaucratic organizations coming to assist the failing SHIN and dilute our

technological blunders across Canada.

HL7 Canada
&
WHIC
As I was saying 'a common problems is no problem', and we now have the so called

bureaucratic HL7 Canada outfit presenting itself as "the forum for Canadian health

information stakeholders ...HL7 Canada represents Canadian requirements and issues

in the international forum with a strong, single voice⁽⁶⁾" And, if HL7 Canada is not enough

to assemble all our technological blunders into a technological minestrone, we have another

specialized bureaucratic outfit mixing up and enriching our technological minestrone, it is

called the Western Health Information Collaborative⁽⁷⁾ (WHIC).

morale
The morale of this story is that a common problem is no problem, and SHIN is no problem,

as our own government continues to break its own laws⁽⁸⁾! Do we have a problem Minister of

Health Pat Atkinson?

------------References/endnotes:

List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1.
-
Associate Minister of Health Judy Junor: defending the SHIN flop at the Legislature, by Mario deSantis, April 13, 2000

2.
Web site of the Saskatchewan Health Information Network (SHIN)

3.
-
Saskatchewan Health Information Network-SHIN: Ignoring its mandate and diverting money for the Y2K Nightmare, by Mario deSantis, November 3, 1999

4.
-
Polls show mistrust of governments' medicare spending.Widespread dissatisfaction: Health care workers, Canadians want accountability. By Mark Kennedy, December 14, 2000, Ottawa Citizen

5.
-
A Partial Diagnosis of Health Care Corruption: The Quality Circle of the Big Brains Includes Our Renown Health Economists, by Mario deSantis, March 9, 2000

6.
What is HL7 Canada?

7.
Western Health Information Collaborative

8.
-
Gov't, health districts fail accountability review: auditor. Minister admits problems exist in approving budgets, by Anne Kyle, December 15, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

The SHIN Saga of Health Reform: Common Problem, No Problem?

Nipawin - December 19, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis

brain outburst	Our previous article dealt with the utter irresponsibility of the Saskatchewan Health Information
	Network (SHIN), a brain outburst of the big brain Neil Gardner⁽¹⁾ and his friends at
	Saskatchewan Health and at the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO).

$40-million	SHIN was hailed as the symbol of health care reform and the back bone of our health
	system⁽²⁾. And this technological mind set has been responsible for today's dysfunctional
	health care system. SHIN has been responsible for the mismanagement of some
	$40-million⁽³⁾, however nobody has to be blamed since our big brains share the same so
	called democratic philosophy that if money has been democratically allocated for SHIN then
	we are all democratically responsible for any related failure.

no problem	Our leaders follow the decrepit business philosophy that "an individual problem could be a
	problem; but a common problem is no problem." So, our health care leaders have been
	continuing to lie on their policy problems by shifting the blame and saying that the shortage
	of nurses is a world wide problem and that the shortage of doctors is a problem across Canada.

this is why	In the meantime, our health care leaders have been constructing a political, bureaucratic,
	academic and business environment whereby all policy decisions are democratically
	established, and where all these policies reward all the democratic stakeholders: politicians,
	bureaucrats, researchers and businesses with the exception of the most important people, the
	common people⁽⁴⁾ (and doctors and health care workers). And this is why we have a
	dysfunctional health care system.

rules of the private market place	In a more subtle way, we have a basic problem in health care because we apply the so called
	rules of the private market place for a supposed public health service, and the rules of the
	private market place are set by corrupted politicians, bureaucrats, researchers and their allied
	businesses⁽⁵⁾.

Big Brother	Going back to SHIN, well, SHIN has no problem, it gets along with Saskatchewan Health
	and SAHO. And now that SHIN has failed in its principle mandate to be our Big Brother
	and set up the controversial computerized medical records for any resident in the province,
	we have bigger bureaucratic organizations coming to assist the failing SHIN and dilute our
	technological blunders across Canada.

HL7 Canada & WHIC	As I was saying 'a common problems is no problem', and we now have the so called
	bureaucratic HL7 Canada outfit presenting itself as "the forum for Canadian health
	information stakeholders ...HL7 Canada represents Canadian requirements and issues
	in the international forum with a strong, single voice⁽⁶⁾" And, if HL7 Canada is not enough
	to assemble all our technological blunders into a technological minestrone, we have another
	specialized bureaucratic outfit mixing up and enriching our technological minestrone, it is
	called the Western Health Information Collaborative⁽⁷⁾ (WHIC).

morale	The morale of this story is that a common problem is no problem, and SHIN is no problem,
	as our own government continues to break its own laws⁽⁸⁾! Do we have a problem Minister of
	Health Pat Atkinson?

------------References/endnotes:

	List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign
1. -	Associate Minister of Health Judy Junor: defending the SHIN flop at the Legislature, by Mario deSantis, April 13, 2000

2.	Web site of the Saskatchewan Health Information Network (SHIN)

3. -	Saskatchewan Health Information Network-SHIN: Ignoring its mandate and diverting money for the Y2K Nightmare, by Mario deSantis, November 3, 1999

4. -	Polls show mistrust of governments' medicare spending.Widespread dissatisfaction: Health care workers, Canadians want accountability. By Mark Kennedy, December 14, 2000, Ottawa Citizen

5. -	A Partial Diagnosis of Health Care Corruption: The Quality Circle of the Big Brains Includes Our Renown Health Economists, by Mario deSantis, March 9, 2000

6.	What is HL7 Canada?

7.	Western Health Information Collaborative

8. -	Gov't, health districts fail accountability review: auditor. Minister admits problems exist in approving budgets, by Anne Kyle, December 15, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan