cloud based healthcare, page-11

an interesting view on the billion dollars blown up under Roxon's watch, the PCEHR:

https://theconversation.com/unfixable-time-to-ditch-personally-controlled-e-health-record-scheme-19834

note the comments towards the end of the article because GLH is totally focused on points 2 and 3:



".....to move towards a workable e-health system in Australia, my recommendations are to:

1) Scrap the PCEHR to avoid any further effort and money being wasted. Some commentators have suggested that private industry should take it up, but this would only add commercial self-interest and a whole raft of other issues to an unachievable goal.

2) Redirect effort to implementing the standards and infrastructure that underpinned the PCEHR. This would be the health identifiers, secure message standards, authentication and underlying exchange of information. These features solve real problems being faced by health services today.

The adoption of patient health identifiers by pathology and radiology laboratories in particular would help ensure that results are correctly identified and sent to the right place.

Secure messaging standards are helping to drive more efficient exchange of information between health professionals and further support of these standards would increase the range of content exchanged in this way.

3) Bolster policy and legislation to enable the sharing of clinical information between providers at a local level. There are a number of products already on in use that provide the ability to share clinical information securely to health professionals that need access. The PCEHR provides little extra advantage over these systems.
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