At 2:21 pm +1100 10/2/06, Horst Herb wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:32, Ken Harvey wrote:
http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18086337%255E
421,00.html
"The states and the commonwealth are also expected to each pledge $65
million towards improving e-health records..."
We live in hope!
Hope? My crystal ball suggests that half of that money will be spent on
"consultancies" which will invariably just repeat the messages from the past
decade, and the other half will be spread across just enough uncoordinated
projects to ensure that none of them has enough funding to actually succeed.
If we'd use the money to buy some collection containers to be attached to
bovine behinds, we could collect a lot more bullshit for the money I reckon.
Horst
Personally, I'd rather spend it on resurrecting MediConnect and
making HealthConnect go in some form, but based around generating
business value to transacting partners.
But in life a great swathe will probably end up going toward SNOMED
licencing, infrastructure and training.
Ian.
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