Quote Of The Year

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."

Friday, November 23, 2007

E-Health Reform Might Be Slipping Away.

Just came across the following.

Queensland Health appoints new Director-General

Friday 23 November 2007

Premier Anna Bligh has announced Director-General of Queensland Health Uschi Schreiber would be leaving her position to pursue new career opportunities.

Bligh says Queensland Health Executive Director of Policy Planning and Resourcing Professor Andrew Wilson in Queensland Health will be acting Director-General while the position is advertised.

It has been reported Schreiber will take leave from December 11 and her resignation would be effective from February 29, 2008.

"Since 2005 Schreiber has led the reforms in Queensland Health which have seen the ongoing implementation of the Government's Health Action Plan," says Bligh.

Schreiber is moving to Sydney to take up a partnership offered to her by Ernst and Young earlier this month.

Continue reading here:

http://www.qbr.com.au/index.cfm?storyid=33468&cp=displaystory&type=s

As I have previously said on the blog – leadership instability is death in Health IT! – and that’s just what we have.!

The most recent editorial at of the Chik Newsletter makes the point eloquently.

“Some two and a half years ago, NEHTA was formed. Its Board of Directors consists of the Secretaries and Directors General of Health of Australia's nine jurisdictions (Federal and State/Territory). Now only two of the original NEHTA Board members remain and the loss of corporate memory, experience and intellectual capital this reflects is staggering. With such a degree of churn at the highest level, little wonder that decisions with the potential to involve billions of taxpayer (and voter) dollars have a hard passage to traverse.”

Bad news all round and especially for a decent outcome from the Boston Consulting Group Report.

David.

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