Here are the results of the poll.
Is Australia Getting Value For Money For The Spend It Makes In Digital Health?
Yes 0 (0%)
No 47 (96%)
I Have No Idea 2 (4%)
Votes: 49
A very clear outcome suggesting we can do a lot better in getting value from our Digital Health spend.
Any insights on the poll are welcome, as a comment, as usual!
A very good number of votes. and a very clear outcome.
2 of 49 who answered the poll admitted to not being sure about the answer to the question!
Again, many, many thanks to all those who voted!
David.
After living the government "help" over the last few decades its clear the Ronald Reagan was right, the scariest words in the English language are "I am from the government and I am here to help"
ReplyDeleteIn the late 90's we had IT departments in Pathology companies innovating and driving standards committees and things rapidly progressed. There were lots of innovative software companies and I think one of the first nail in the coffin was "HCN" and big pharma sponsorship of Medical Director which killed the competition. The role of government should be limited to sponsorship of standards publication and perhaps supply of a trustable PKI infrastructure. These things were mostly in place in early 2000's but the National Authorities derailed the progress that was happening and replaced it with nothing. In fact the only thing that is still working is the HL7V2 pathology/radiology that was in place before they came to "help" We now have a standards soup of poorly implemented whims of the anointed with further plans to replace everything with yet again more whims, rather than just saying "If you are using it it must pass testing because lives are at stake". Things that work will persist, but the pathology companies have withdrawn from the space and quality is going down rather than up, because the top down changing directions do not encourage solid investment and there is no requirement to be compliant, and in fact very little expertise in knowing what is compliance.
The best thing that could happen is the economic crisis that is already here, but denied. After 2 decades and $3 Billion of tax payers money we should surely pull the plug on a failed attempt to "help" My New Years resolution is to stop wasting time on these idiotic people and I have already broken it ;-)