Hi Oliver,
David may have a different view but mine would be to take a neutral position on anything related to NEHTA until they have demonstrated they are actually making a real difference at the clinical and/or health system administrative coalface!
Right now I would suggest the jury is still out and I suspect it will be for a while yet.
The lack, from them, of planned outcomes against which we can measure them, in these domains is their major failing - separate from all the other managerial and secrecy stuff they go on with.
Cheers
David
Note to all: I would really like NEHTA to succeed but their approach - IMVHO - sets them up for failure before they start. No clinical systems initiative has ever worked if the workers at the coal face - the docs and nurses - are not convinced and keen.
The old those who fail to learn the lessons of history....
Cheers again
David
---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:50:25 +0930, Oliver Frank wrote:
> David Guest wrote:
>
>> Oh no, Oliver. You should always listen to your inner cynic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynic
>>
>
> OK, read it all. Interesting, but I understood very little of it with my modest intellectual equipment. Perhaps that is because, as is noted at the bottom
> of the page:
>
> "This entry has been very lightly edited from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica."
>
> David, can you explain to me what an attitude of 'healthy cynicism' would be in relation to NEHTA and its activities?
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