Oliver wrote: >Experts team to streamline health >Karen Dearne australianIT.com.au. >MARCH 28, 2006 > > STANDARDS Australia is forming a "partnering subsidiary" to work with the > National e-Health Transition Authority to fast-track new e-health standards. > > > > snip
>NeHTA has also proposed an e-health standards forum to bring other health >standardisation agencies under the one umbrella. > >Existing international and national standards will be used where feasible, the >paper says. > >"This means ensuring Australian requirements are incorporated into >high-priority international standards," it says. > >"Selecting the appropriate standards products is also important. > >"Technical specifications and reports based on lower levels of consensus but >delivered more rapidly will be appropriate in some circumstances," it says. > > It looks like we won't have to worry about all this in NSW. Apparently the NSW HairNet has been transformed into HealtheLink with the help of "LogicaCMG (known) for its integration and database management skills, together with Orion and Orion's majority-owned affiliate, HealthLink." http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18622936%5E15841%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html One of the great things in Karen's article (Hasn't she had a busy day?) is that a competitive market in New Zealand has managed to drive down software costs to about $100 per GP per month. Later in the article, she notes that "HealthLink has just signed up its 4000th GP site in Australia -- it also has more than 100 hospitals, laboratories and area health services using the system on a monthly fee starting at $20." Thankfully according to the article there is also a competitive market in medcomms in NZ but I guess, from previous postings from Tom, they don't talk to each other. The bottom line for me was a reminder that I should be nicer to Tom. '"It has been a hard business, we have 45 staff, a turnover of $5 million and we really only do it because we're passionate about it and slightly mad," he quips.' David P.S. Did everybody have a nice webby day in Sydney?
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