They Simply Don’t Seem To Be Able To Keep It Up. Surely A Full, Properly Working System Is Not All That Hard?

Had my usual weekly visit to my NEHRS Record.

Findings were as follows.

First the response time is just awful. Even the News Ltd Home Page and The SMH are 10 times as quick. Comparisons with Google and Amazon and simply not worth making.

Second it now seems you can register for a NEHRS if you wish - so that has been fixed during the week.

Third we have:

Service availability

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This page identifies scheduled outages to the eHealth record system.

The Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record System (PCEHR) is undertaking essential maintenance from 4am Wednesday 30 January to 7am Wednesday 30 January (AEDST).

The PCEHR System will not be available between 4am and 7am Wednesday 30 January .

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Contact the eHealth helpline on 1800 723 471 for assistance during this period.

See here:

http://www.ehealth.gov.au/internet/ehealth/publishing.nsf/content/availability

It just seems that never a week goes by when it all works as it should.

David.