Here is my e-mail back.
Hi My Old Mate,
I want you to think about one question.
"Given the $200M or so has been spent and another $200M or so is committed if this were a company you were managing would you continue the way you have started in the first just on 9 months ago"?
CIO leaves as Fleming takes over as e-health chief
Karen Dearne | September 30, 2008
We still have an unchanged board, profound secrecy, no outcomes and so on. Great sinecure for those who have jobs there but hardly helping Australia.
What to do is easy. Put in a representative board, downgrade the CIO council, make it clear to the CEO he is on six months notice to really get things happening, for the whole health system, against some really robust performance benchmarks and make the organisation really publicly accountable.
It is that easy I reckon!
The rest of what the e-Health community need would flow from those steps.
Cheers
David.
It is well nigh time to examine the KPIs - Key Performance Indicators (Balanced Performance Scorecard) - call them what you will - but EXAMINE them - OPENLY, SUCCINCTLY, OBJECTIVELY.
ReplyDeleteWhere to begin?
In order of importance list 5 - 10 KPI's covering the period 1 July 2008 - 30 June 2009 for:
- Mr David Gonski, appointed Chair of the NEHTA Board (June 2008)
- Mr Peter Flemming, appointed CEO of NEHTA (Sept 2008)
- The NEHTA Board of Governance
- NEHTA, the Organisation.
- Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, National Clinical Lead, NEHTA
- Dr Andy Bond, Chief Architect - Interoperability
An excellent place to start.
AN OPEN INTERCEPTED LETTER
ReplyDelete10 July 2009
Dear Prime Minister
Dear Federal Health Minister
Dear State Health Ministers
Dear Chairman of the NEHTA Board
Dear Chief Executive Officer NEHTA
The Government’s Health Reform Agenda is vitally important to the future well being of all Australians.
Health reforms will flounder and fail unless they are very solidly underpinned by health information technology systems.
With all due respect we sincerely ask you to please genuinely question - why so little progress has been made by NEHTA since it was established.
The skills to solve the health informatics and technology issues which confront us all are readily available in Australia, but they are not being used appropriately by those who have the power to do so. Individually and together you have the power to rectify that situation.
With much respect, sincerely yours,
Those Who Care.