> Health trial stalled > Karen Dearne > NOVEMBER 28, 2006 > > Meanwhile, NSW Health is paying Health Communication Network and MedTech to > build the necessary interfaces.
Here we go again. The health bureaucrats just don't learn. When HIC Online was to be introduced, rather than fund the devlopment of a single API that could be used by all vendores of billing software, the Commonwealth instead paid a number of billing software vendors each to develop their own interface to the HIC system. Now we see that NSW Health is going down the same wasteful path. How will NSW Health decide how many and which billing software vendors are to receive public money to enable their particular users to connect to the Healthelink system? Will GPs who are not using one of the packages favoured by NSW Health (other than Best Practice) therefore not be able to connect to the Healthelink system? Where is the equity in this? By the way, how and why is it that users of Best Practice *can* connect to the Healthelink system? Has Frank Pyefinch got the specs and just done the work on his own initiative to make it happen, or is there some other reason? Oliver Frank, general practitioner 255 North East Road, Hampstead Gardens, South Australia 5086 Phone 08 8261 1355 Fax 08 8266 5149 Mobile 0407 181 683 _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
