At 11:22 pm +1100 7/3/07, Horst Herb wrote:
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 23:05, Oliver Frank wrote:
Why Should Commonwealth e-Health Executives be having Sleepless Nights?
http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-should-commonwealth-e-health.ht
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<quote>
"I am now able to confidently declare the NEHTA experiment to be a dangerous,
destructive (of many committed professionals in the area) and expensive
failure, and I am confident it will soon become a 'career limiting' blot on
the resumes of many of those involved. "
</quote>
Guess sooner or later David will lose his optimism
I have long lost all interests in the antics of the "health IT politbureau"
Horst
We had a briefing today from a nurse involved in the National Bowel
Cancer Screening initiative (good election year stuff).
Of note, there is a national register to keep track of the people
sent screening kits who have not fronted up to investigate abnormal
results.
We have to fill forms on paper to notify the register if we take any
action, so they knwo to stop hassling the patient.
Electronic functionality will be June/July (?i think) for lodgement
on a web site (without auto population of the forms from the clincial
softwaer) or for integration into the clinical software - which will
print paper to be sent to the register.
Electronic receipt of the pathology report result of the FOBT tests
was not envisaged - we expect a letter in the mail, even though the
provider can surely send HL7 path messages - I will follow-up this to
double check.
If ever there was a good demonstration project for NeHTA to get
involved in to save some paperwork, National Bowel Cancer Screening
initiative is it. Oh well.
Ian.
PS As I have said before a long time ago, the governance arrangements
for NeHTA make it nearly impossible for it to achieve much good. BCG
Consultancy, by not fully understanding the context of its analysis,
has started NeHTA out on this path to .......????
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