BTW: Have any of you read about the Medcom initiative in Denmark? : see
http://www.medcom.dk/wm109991
It occurred to me that maybe Ian Reineke sees NeHTA's future emulating
that organisation to cement its position in Oz health informatics.
If they do, they will have to get a whole lot more practical.
Ross Davey
David More wrote:
Hi Horst.
Why am I nodding in agreement rather than laughing....or crying?
Cheers
David
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On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 12:05:55 +1100, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Friday 03 November 2006 09:13, David More wrote:
>> Oliver,
>>
>> I am stunned and deeply saddened to find any information in this
domain (i.e e-Health) should be classified in any form.
>>
>
> I don't think it is about clasifying information at all. It is about
hiding lack of information.
>
> I imagine it like this:
>
> Chairman: looks like we blew x Million dollars in x years. Time for
reporting. What do we have to show for it?
>
> (shuffling of feet, audible blushing of faces, sudden interest in the
carpet pattern or ceiling pattern developed and demonstrated by all
around)
>
> Chairman: Well?
>
> Somebdoy: Uh..., ahem, duh, ...
>
> Somebdoy else: shouldn't that question be put to the reporting
subcommittee?
>
> (smiles light up all around. Sudden attention towards the chairman)
>
> Chairman: we haven't got a reporting subcommittee, do we? This has to
be investigated. I propose forming an investing committee on this,
with an initial
> budget of x, and a timeframe of x. Everyone in favour?
>
> [3 months of haggling out who gets to be the chair of the
investigating subcommittee pass, the committee comes into existence,
and after the 5th meeting in
> Timbuktu (they couldn't find another place that gave as many frequent
flyer points to all involved, so it had to be Timbuktu) they report
back that they
> suggest a reporting subcommittee should be formed ...]
>
> Chairman: well, the report of the reporting subcomittee please!
>
> Spokesman of tehe Reporting Subcommittee (henceforth named SOTRSC):
our research has shon that so far we have
> - had umpteenth meetings (248 page report ofn the quality of finger
food and coffee served during those attached)
> - produced x pages of meaningless glossy pamphlets (called "reports",
pallett of samples stored in the garage, too heavy to bring nto
thebuilding) - repeated
> x suggestions made in the previous decade by numerous predecessors
(see attached folders I - XCVII)
>
> Chairman: you are telling me we have nothing to show for it?
>
> SOTRSC: That's not what I said. I said ... (see pages 48 - 738 of the
minutes)
>
> Chairman: Aha.
>
> Bright Guy Form the Backrow (BGFTBR): What if we just cover it up?
Make this whole emarrassing thing disappear by classifying any
information about it?
>
> Chairman: I didn't hear that. Nobody did. The minutes don't show it.
So what is this nonsense somebody didn't babble about? (some shuffling
noises while two
> men in black drag the gagged BGFTBR out ofthe back door. He never
existed anyway.
>
> ..
>
> Horst
>
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