Hi All,
I am hoping that members of this list might find time to take a look at David More's latest Blog entitled "Media Management, Real Progress or NEHTA Trying to Justify Their Existence?" While clearly it cannot be said that David has a soft spot for NEHTA, at least some of what he is saying about the documents produced pre-Christmas make a lot of sense to me. David's assessment of the NEHTA web services document as another ""get no one anywhere" effort is in my view right on the button and I have said so to NEHTA, prior to David's commentary. IMHO, we are no further ahead with clinical communications in 2007, than we were in 2000 and it is a disgrace. However, the commentary on the "NATIONAL PATHOLOGY TERMINOLOGY Draft National Reference Lists - Pathology Request and Results" is really outside of my area of expertise as is the review of the 374 page "National Discharge Summary Data Content Specifications" document. Would it be possible for the learned members of this list to give some useful feedback on all of the NEHTA documents, if necessary roping in colleagues who have specific domain expertise to help. Clearly, if we let these documents go through unchallenged, and they are as David says arcane and irrelevant, then they will form further roadblocks to progress and we will have no-one but ourselves to blame. On the other hand, David may be entirely wrong and NEHTA may indeed have ushered in a new dawn for Australian health IT? Any views on the above? Take a look at this on http://aushealthit.blogspot.com Kind regards, Tom Bowden
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