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Timeless Quotes - Sadly The Late Paul Shetler - "Its not Your Health Record it's a Government Record Of Your Health Information"

or

H. L. Mencken - "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Monday, June 02, 2008

A Blog Submission to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission

I e-mailed this submission today to the NHHRC.

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30 May, 2008

National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission

More and Associates Submission

More and Associates is a small consulting firm which consults in the e-Health domain.

More and Associates are convinced there is overwhelming evidence that appropriate deployment and use of information technology in the Health Sector (e-Health) can enable much enhanced sustainability, quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness in the Health System.

The professional evidence supporting this contention is available at the following URL:

http://healthit.ahrq.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=650&PageID=0&parentname=ObjMgr&parentid=106&mode=2&dummy=t

The Health IT Bibliography is a unique and highly valuable resource which should be thoroughly considered by the Commission in its deliberations.

Detailed reviewed references cover the following areas of e-Health value, adoption and deployment.

Organizational Strategy

Adoption Strategies

Business Case

Technology

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS)

Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) Systems

Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems

Electronic Prescribing (eRx)

Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Standards and Interoperability

Evaluation

Evaluation Studies in Health IT

Patient Safety

Workflow Analysis

Additional evidence is also available from my blog on Health IT which has over 450 articles on the topic.

See this URL:

http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/

We believe an appropriate consideration of the place of e-Health in all the reform proposals developed by the Commission is vital. If this is not done a key enabler of reform may be ignored to the peril of the success of the whole reform enterprise.

Yours sincerely,

Signed

David G. More

Executive Director

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I hope they listen.

David.

2 comments:

Trevor3130 said...

A follow-up on the Trakcare saga.
1) Patient records in Medical Director are being duplicated. At first glance, the difference is in the record number, the "new" one has two 0s at the front.
2) The port of demographics from the old booking software has wiped the Medicare numbers.
Like I said before, David, it's a pity these kinds of errors cannot be assembled in a central repository. That wouldn't prevent the inevitable repetition, but those responsible would be less inclined to keep pleading ignorance.

Trevor3130 said...

11 (eleven) vacancies in the HealthSMART team advertised in The Age today.