Here are the results of the poll.
Do You Believe The ADHA Have Made Sufficient Improvements In The #myHealthRecord System Recently To Make It A Clinically Useful And Worthwhile System?
Yes 1% (1)No 96% (94)
I Have No Idea 3% (3)
Total votes: 98
Well that was pretty clear. Pretty much everyone thinks that the #myHealthRecord is not clinically useful or worthwhile at this time.
Any insights on the poll welcome as a comment, as usual.
A very reasonable turn out of votes.
It must have been a fairly easy question as only 3/98 readers were not sure what to respond.
Again, many, many thanks to all those that voted!
David.
Had to do “ Have No Idea” as It seems my current raft of clinical engagements are quite successful without the governments collection of stuff. The last 4 months have seen several different specialists for diagnostic, surgery and post op care. Sure there were computers involved but it was comforting to be asked questions along the way to valid and it helped me and my family better understand and remember things.
ReplyDeleteI see the role for information technology, it is a shame the federal government has hamstrung itself with a system that belongs to an earlier age.
My Health Record was never intended to be clinically useful. The way it ended up being implemented makes it impossible to ever be clinically useful.
ReplyDeleteWell do we have any idea what is meant to be good for then?
ReplyDeleteDavid.
Cyber entrapment. The department of fears is using Austrians personal health data to lure cyber criminal and hostile states. Once in the net, the PM can then apologise to the perpetrators and outlaw hippies.
ReplyDeleteNo reason for it to still exist David, they had an opportunity before conscription to take back the role as orchestrator and facilitator. With the new direction Google Health is taking and what appears to be a system operator arrangement that does not appear portable the government might have lost control.
ReplyDelete@David "Well do we have any idea what it is meant to be good for then?"
ReplyDeleteOriginally, there were two assumptions
1. It would reduce data fragmentation. It was difficult to see how it would, even in principle, and the way it has been implemented makes it absolutely impossible.
2. When people were given access to their health data, they would become more engaged in their own health care. That is an unproven assumption. In fact there is evidence that the only people who access their medical data are already interested in their health. Nobody suddenly gets interested in their own health because they can see their medical records.
IMHO the only reason myhr still exists is because of the sunk cost fallacy.
The reasons why myhr should not exist far outweigh the government's claims for its "benefits"