Oliver Frank wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > From: - Thu Jun 07 06:50:20 2007 > Australian Health Information Technology > > There is Hope! > > Posted: 06 Jun 2007 07:15 AM CDT > http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AustralianHealthInformationTechnology/~3/122613087/there-is-hope.html > > > The last 24 hours have been just amazing in what I am hearing from all > sorts of sources! > > Behind the scenes, in all sorts of ways, the agenda this blog has been > trying to propose is receiving a better hearing than could have been > imagined even a month or two ago. > > The recognition that changes in NEHTA's approach to stakeholders is > desperately needed seems now to be accepted. It is now also very clear, > as a lesson, that really working collaboratively is critically important.
Ian Rienecke's last Really Big Gig was doing the IT for SOCOG for the Sydney 200 Olympic Games. There was no doubt he did a good job, everything just worked, but spending a few years organising for a large-but-finite, very well-funded event lasting a few weeks is very different to organising IT for the entire health sector in a way that is ongoing and sustainable, forever. For an Olympic Games, you can afford to be autocratic and to do a lot of work in-house, in a bunker (which is where the Games IT stuff were housed, literally) under very tight control. But such an approach doesn't work for the entire health sector. Hmmm, perhaps Brian Clarke and Bryan Dawe and Gina Riley might be interested in making a documentary on Australian health informatics ( http://www.abc.net.au/tv/thegames/ )? > The black hats are recognizing their day in the sun is at an end and > that change is in the wind. I wish I could share more - but what is > going on is at a tipping point and I need to just let the actors play it > all out. David sounds like he is writing his blog from Mount Olympus... > I am sure in the next month or two policy will emerge that makes many of > the readers of this blog much happier. The tipping point has arrived, I > think, and we all need to be patient as the processes play out - > hopefully for the good of all - we shall see. A deus ex machina? Thank the gods for that! Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
