Ian Haywood wrote:
On Thursday 31 May 2007 17:38:04 Ken Harvey wrote:
72. It is critical that health providers can communicate effectively
with each other while maintaining patient confidentiality. Labor will
provide leadership in the development of national, secure health data
standards and will establish a common framework for health record
systems. The delay in establishing this infrastructure is inhibiting the
delivery of quality health services in Australia and contributing to
unnecessary adverse events.
Sounds great on paper, as manifestoes often do. However I can't help but be
reminded of the ALP's clause IV analogue: "the socialisation of industry,
production, distribution and exchange."
Indeed the two are related. Medical electronic comms is a classic and severe
case of market-failure, decisive government intervention is required
(funding an open-source EHR would be nice but not required, just picking a
standard off the shelf will do), however it is still effectively
nationalisation: the existing market in health comms is built around the lack
of a standard and so would be destroyed.
Ken, show me a labour government that follows Party policy for a day, an hour,
a minute, and I'll listen, but until then I'm very sceptical.
Ian Haywood
As a dumb old bystander my only significant comment is ....Haven't you
blokes got enough to argue about without getting involved in politicall
stuff. You all know that no-one ever wins that sort of
argument...you're either a lefty (like me) or a conservative (I hesitate
to use the word liberal) and no amount of discussion/argument will make
a blind bit of difference to that. :-) Greg M
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