Here are the results of the recent poll.
Do You Believe Gene Therapy Will Make Significant Strides Forward In The Next Few Years?
Yes 22 (76%)
No 5 (17%)
I Have No Idea 2 (7%)
Total No. Of Votes: 29
A split vote with a large majority being pretty optimistic for improvement!
Any insights on the poll are welcome, as a comment, as usual!
A good number of votes. But also a very clear outcome!
2 of 29 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.
This weeks poll is interesting. The idea that having more data is better seems to be firmly believed by the "Anointed" who have been "helping" us sort out eHealth for the last 25 years and spending > $3 billion in the process.
ReplyDeleteThe motivation for me exploring eHealth was the sinking feeling when a patient brings in a 50mm pile of paper results, usually in random date order. Its like a patient with a 4 volume paper chart coming into casualty. Trying to sort out what's going on with all that data is very challenging and I often resorted to graph paper and transcribing results of interest in date order so I could see a time series. The thought was that it should be possible to get the computer to do this quickly and easily, and in fact it is. Initially only PIT was available, and would have required "screen scraping" to do it. The start of HL7 V2 with atomic coded pathology was a godsend and today I can do that graphing easily (Well its not perfect because of coding errors and imperfect standards compliance, but it works)
The point is that the current pdf based My Health record reverts to 1995 (Perhaps 1984?) with a pile of electronic paper (pdfs) that is uncoded and poorly labelled and requires human interpretation. Perhaps DOH should send everyone free graph paper? The data was often atomic when originally generated, particularly pathology, who made this work before the "help" from government.
It is not progress, its a retrograde step. Imagine a patient with 2000 pdfs, where you have to download each pdf (Takes longer that flipping paper) and look at each one to know what's in it. There is just not enough time in the day to do that.
My Health Record is a danger to health care, its taken hard won gains and trashed them and will make patient care worse, not better. Having more data in it will make this obvious. We need atomic, high quality, well coded data that can be manipulated by decision support and show cumulative displays. The people running NEHTA/ADHA etc are clueless and always have been. Its a big expensive sinkhole that swallows up progress, innovation and taxpayer money. It will fail, hopefully sooner than later....