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Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Is This A Significant Step Forward In The Clinical Secure Messaging Space?
They still don't get the fact that having standards compliance for the actual messages and the systems the receive the messages is critical to the free exchange of information. It's like turning on the gas supply before you have completed the connection to the appliances and the safety of the appliances. The distributer sits back and and marvels to the volume of gas going down the pipe while the endpoints erupt in flames killing the patients who depend on reliable appliances at the endpoints. I must have said that 100 times here, but we are no further forward with the powers that be, who keep changing, but don't get any better! Testing compliance is not that hard, unless you have no technical understanding, in which case its black magic with all those funny characters?
I know a terminology provider who offered compliance testing as an option. I've never heard of any vendor asked to be checked, no one ever got the seal/tick.
How many years of a GP minimum dataset having been defined in Australia? How many developers/practices have actually implemented it in the workflow & verified the GP's & software meet the requirements of that standard?
I imagine someone at the National Cabinet meeting where they discussed paying for Rapid Antigen Tests piped up to say something like "But, we don't have a National Secure Messaging Network yet, so what use will those RAT results have in the grand scheme of clinical data?" If so, the answer, clearly, was something like "Never mind that, we'd rather waste an easy billion for a good headline for the day. When people start complaining that the piece of plastic with a faded line doesn't get them past the check-in gate, we'll come up with another crazy distraction." On the other hand, a central collation of millions of verified test results for SARS-CoV-2 would be a fabulous epidemiological data bank. (Think of the $$$ saved by not going down that path, though.)
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They still don't get the fact that having standards compliance for the actual messages and the systems the receive the messages is critical to the free exchange of information. It's like turning on the gas supply before you have completed the connection to the appliances and the safety of the appliances. The distributer sits back and and marvels to the volume of gas going down the pipe while the endpoints erupt in flames killing the patients who depend on reliable appliances at the endpoints. I must have said that 100 times here, but we are no further forward with the powers that be, who keep changing, but don't get any better! Testing compliance is not that hard, unless you have no technical understanding, in which case its black magic with all those funny characters?
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I know a terminology provider who offered compliance testing as an option. I've never heard of any vendor asked to be checked, no one ever got the seal/tick.
How many years of a GP minimum dataset having been defined in Australia?
How many developers/practices have actually implemented it in the workflow & verified the GP's & software meet the requirements of that standard?
"interoperable exchange of clinical documents"
oh goodie, lots of documents. Sounds like a fax drop-in replacement.
ADHA confusing action with progress again.
2022 - about to be a repeat of 2012 - the year of the still born child called MyHR
I imagine someone at the National Cabinet meeting where they discussed paying for Rapid Antigen Tests piped up to say something like "But, we don't have a National Secure Messaging Network yet, so what use will those RAT results have in the grand scheme of clinical data?"
If so, the answer, clearly, was something like "Never mind that, we'd rather waste an easy billion for a good headline for the day. When people start complaining that the piece of plastic with a faded line doesn't get them past the check-in gate, we'll come up with another crazy distraction."
On the other hand, a central collation of millions of verified test results for SARS-CoV-2 would be a fabulous epidemiological data bank. (Think of the $$$ saved by not going down that path, though.)
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