tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post7003195298049217207..comments2024-03-28T17:49:03.998+11:00Comments on Australian Health Information Technology: Are We Just Kidding About Or Serious About E-Health? Who Knows. It Seems We Are Building a Playpen!Dr David G More MB PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902724829795199526noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-21087332885355886892011-04-01T08:54:46.399+11:002011-04-01T08:54:46.399+11:00The federal government's clinical adviser on e...<i>The federal government's clinical adviser on e-health, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, described the projects as "a playpen to see how these things could work".</i><br /><br />I can suggest a less expensive solution to "see how these things could work": a few days at the library.<br /><br />-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-50847490704842550482011-03-31T15:36:43.447+11:002011-03-31T15:36:43.447+11:00The NT project does *not* include WA in any meanin...The NT project does *not* include WA in any meaningful way - it involved a vague inclusion of 6 hospitals who currently do very little electronically. WA was not included in the playpen - nor was SA - WA I can understand - I believe it is because NEHTA didn't realise that WA was actually part of Australia - this probably reflects the fact that NEHTA's knowledge of geography is almost as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-43670912313730491302011-03-31T12:05:50.632+11:002011-03-31T12:05:50.632+11:00NSW scooped the pool so to speak. Given the Libera...NSW scooped the pool so to speak. Given the Liberal landslide last weekend it makes me wonder whether NSW got its 3 guernsey's just in the nick of time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-9176110424330465102011-03-31T11:02:06.882+11:002011-03-31T11:02:06.882+11:00From the media announcements we know that:
Preced...From the media announcements we know that:<br /><br />Precedence, HCN, Best Practice and SmartHealth are mentioned twice.<br /><br />FRED-eRx, Microsoft, iSoft, HealthLink, Zedmed, iCare, SIMPL, are mentioned once.<br /><br />We also know that the 9 sites are located in:<br /><br />NSW/ACT – Sydney - 3 sites<br />QLD – Brisbane – 2 sites<br />VIC – 1 site<br />NT/SA/WA – 1 site<br />TAS – 1 site<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-15840984259228726242011-03-31T10:06:25.712+11:002011-03-31T10:06:25.712+11:00It is a playpen - for politicians to try to win vo...It is a playpen - for politicians to try to win votes and for senior health managers to serve their political masters!<br /><br />The sad part is that the deserving public and dedicated health workers are all outside the pen watching tax payer money be squandered!<br /><br />There is also no transparency! It would be great to be able to be able to actually assess the Wave 2 grants on merit (not Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-11174837934153789712011-03-31T08:58:13.488+11:002011-03-31T08:58:13.488+11:00"If that information it is not readily forthc..."If that information it is not readily forthcoming, and there is no good reason I can think of as to why it shouldn’t be, it could be very embarrassing for the Minister should some enterprising journalist dig out this information under an FOI, or should the opposition dig it out via the Senate Estimates."<br /><br />Well, in the post-wiki leaks world we don't need FOI. If every Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-42618328796484288532011-03-31T08:01:52.151+11:002011-03-31T08:01:52.151+11:00Guys, the budget allocation of 1/2 a billion is to...Guys, the budget allocation of 1/2 a billion is to be spent by June 2012. By then the project is meant to have shown benefit and further funds are to be allocated or the program cancelled.<br /><br />Does anyone think these 12 projects are going to become a useful national system in 15 months and show it works and provides benefit?<br /><br />Re the money $55M is still a fair bit for a 'Dr David G More MB PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06902724829795199526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-22235953886564941122011-03-31T07:04:00.187+11:002011-03-31T07:04:00.187+11:00No David, that is not correct and you know it. “Ha...No David, that is not correct and you know it. “Half a billion dollars” has not been spent on a playpen. It’s only $55 million that has been spent on 9 projects in Wave 2 which equates to $6 million per project. That leaves $411 million in the playpen bucket, unspent.<br /><br />Now each of those 9 projects has to do quite a lot of ‘work’ of one kind or another to spend $6 million. And they Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-24224502406616058672011-03-30T23:09:59.875+11:002011-03-30T23:09:59.875+11:00David, to be scrupulously fair, it's not half ...David, to be scrupulously fair, it's not half a billion dollars being spent on the playpen, but about $55M, or 12% of the total. Perhaps Mukesh will regret using the word "playpen" rather than something more formal and less evocative, like "pilot projects". Or as Minister Roxon put it, this is to "find out what works and what doesn't". It's a pretty safe Keith Healenoreply@blogger.com