This is not unexpected - they have been backpedalling for some time.
This will give commercial vendors of data an edge. The biggest player
here is potentially IPN with their centralized records, though obviously
they would have to be careful of privacy issues. I would be surprised if
HCN has not been working on a way of capturing their corporate doctors'
data and leveraging it.
Govt have abandoned the standards arena and interoperability is the
enemy of the commercial players.
Unfortunately Govt is not willing to make the leap of faith that
connectivity will bring benefits. There is no direct evidence that it
will, but it seems intuitively likely. They have not invested much by
world standards in IT and arguably have achieved reasonable returns.
They could have done much better with a more unified strategy and a more
intelligent approach to standards and IP issues. Still large IT projects
have a high probability of "failure" and HealthConnect was *big*
R
Greg Twyford wrote:
Colleagues,
Draw your own conclusions.
See:
http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,17913606%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
Greg
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