Peter Machell wrote:
Thinus, I'm afraid you're asking the government to put common sense
before red tape and this is something that rarely happens. Few of the
BFH providers are technically following the B4H suggested requirements
with regard to firewalls and most shouldn't be on the list. The original
rebate was not much more than an opportunity for the government to give
Telstra a bucket load of money, and the real benefit to healthcare has
been nil.
Peter,
I concur with your assessment. The main benefit of B4H has been to
employ some IM&T interested people at the Division SBOs. The dictum that
broadband is an enabler is true. If you have a real use for it, then it
will enable what you want to do, but just having broadband, particularly
expensive, taxpayer-funded broadband, in practices without much need is
not a great leap forward.
I have about equal B4H and 'vanilla' broadband in our local practices.
It's not possible as a user to see any difference. The amount of traffic
in most practices is negligible, apart from path results, which come
down fine on dial-up anyway, as does HIC Online bulk-bill batches in
even larger practices. The savvy minority who want VPNs to home are the
only significant winners from B4H that I've seen. So long as they ensure
they get static PPPOE at the practice
Automatic updates of OS patches and virus definitions are nice, but
don't make up for the maintenance overheads of MD, with it's recurrent
disk installs and downloads from their website. An automatic update
system for MD would be the most widely beneficial development that
broadband would enable.
Greg
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Information Management & Technology Program Officer
Canterbury Division of General Practice
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