Mitretek seems to cater to the needs of hospitals and service units on a national level, not smaller clinical settings. Y2K programmers will be available to help with problems real soon. Tom Love, Cimarron, has been assigned to develop a new diabetes package. If contracted software is purchased by IHS nationwide, it is available free to all tribes. We need to figure out how to get input to them on changes that we feel need to be made to the package.
Meetings are too short.
Tribes would like to see it and participate. THD s should be encouraged to attend RIT meetings Meetings contain too many issues-not enough time to probe issues in depth. If the RIT committee splits into a Research Committee and a Technology Committee, it will disconnect the technology people from the people they are supposed to work with and serve. RIT is an appointed committee of the Board. These meetings can recommend what they want RIT to do.