Hi Tim, The have totally dropped the ball on this one - to the extent that in the last few weeks they have been advertising for 3 pharmacists - not IT experience necessary - to work on it for the next 2 years - till June 2009.
It has not moved forward 1 inch since the MSIA and HL7 (I think) gave it to NEHTA 3 years ago. Two more years at least I am told! Cheers David ---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:45:21 +1000, Tim Churches wrote: > Oliver Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been pointed to: >> >> http://australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,21848256-15317,00.html >> >> E-health standards advance >> >> Karen Dearne | June 05, 2007 >> ... >> Meanwhile, NEHTA clinical product design manager Kate Ebrill said the draft >> medications terminology for health messaging created by HL7 Australia and the >> MSIA for the federal Health Department in 2004 (to support basic clinical communications) was being further developed as an extension to SNOMED CT. >> >> "A lot of the work we're doing is focused on taking that model and looking >> at what is required to make that sustainable, quality assured and deliverable in >> Australia," she said. >> >> "We're also trying to co-ordinate various inputs around the Therapeutic >> Goods Administration and the PBS." >> >> Ms Ebrill said the model was initially intended to provide a terminology for >> health messaging, but "it could also be used in e-prescribing and dispensing >> applications, as well as shared electronic health records". >> >> "We're developing a whole lot of products that will actually support health >> messaging, and terminologies is just one component of that," she said. >> > > Hold on.... "draft medications terminology for health messaging created by > HL7 Australia and the MSIA for the federal Health Department in 2004"... "being > further developed as an extension to SNOMED CT. " > > So, 3 years later, a national medications terminology is *still* being > developed? A completely fundamental building-block of clinical communications! I don't > have any problem with NEHTA doing further work on a national medications > terminology in order to integrate it with SNOMED CT, or with NEHTA aligning inputs > from the TGA and PBS, whatever that means. But is NEHTA saying that the 2004 > medications terminology was so crappy that it was unusable? Is that the message? > So crappy that it was better for people to use no medication terminology for > the last three years, or to just make up their own idiosyncratic medications > lists and codes. Really? > > I think this illustrates a fundamental problem in health informatics - that > some future, perfect "goal state" continually triumphs over the Good Enough For > Now. What people need to realise is that there is no Promised Land, and that > health informatics involves a continuous journey of change and improvement, and > therefore it makes no sense to delay the deployment of the Good Enough, now, > in anticipation of the Much Better, at some time in the future. Let's have Good > Enough, now, *and* Better, in the future. They are not mutually exclusive. > I've also observed that software and software deployments are treated like stone > monuments, carefully built, over-engineered very often, as if they will have > to last for decades. They won't, it's all fleeting and epheremeral, gals and > guys, today's cutting edge software is tomorrow's MS-DOS V1.0. So just get on > with it - sure, keep an eye on the long-term future but don't forget benefits > to be had in the less-than-perfect-but better-than-no! > w short- and medium-term future. > > Tim C > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > __________ NOD32 2308 (20070604) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
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