Jon Patrick wrote:
Hi Horst,
Horst Herb wrote:
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 07:49, Jon Patrick wrote:
As a tax-payer I have always had a problem with the arguments for the
need for an EHR. I have never heard any case that convinced me that it
would make a difference
..
For me what is missing is a plain English description of what would be
different for me the patient with my health care, not what would be
different for the physician. For example case studies that showed how a
person's care plan materially changed and saved their life because
information was available which would otherwise not be.
Jon,
I have followed the chequered course of Healthconnect and its
predecessors since 2000.
The argument went, over time, something like this:
... We can save XXX lives each year with linked electronic patient records
... We can save $XXX million each year through reduced duplication, etc,
etc.
Then in late 2004 Robert Wood, then heading E-Health in DoHA, said:
... HealthConnect as it is currently envisaged will cost many billions
of dollars to implement
When I read that statement I believed it was game over, which has proved
correct.
A new government may believe in the investment, but the current one
doesn't. If the UK system is shown to be saving lives and pounds when it
is finally implemented, then a Liberal/national government might also
commit the money, but not before.
Then it may be will a political issue because the opposition will be
citing reports about actual lives and dollars saved, and the argument,
so common in Australian politics, 'if they can do it why can't we?' will
apply.
Greg
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Canterbury Division of General Practice
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