tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post8319918737985056186..comments2024-03-28T17:49:03.998+11:00Comments on Australian Health Information Technology: Useful and Interesting Health IT Links from the Last Week – 18/01/2009.Dr David G More MB PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902724829795199526noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-88976743999924814352009-01-19T14:18:00.000+11:002009-01-19T14:18:00.000+11:00The question of Electronic Medical Records is not ...The question of Electronic Medical Records is not a question of technical possibility. It is about the privacy of the patients and who accesses this information. Anything that is accessed online is subject to a risk. Even the credit cards companies are being accessed. How do we protect the patient information and make sure that only the patient can access that information. Not even his doctors Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-92193916518338795742009-01-19T08:38:00.000+11:002009-01-19T08:38:00.000+11:00Your 17 December blog and readers comments on the ...Your 17 December blog and readers comments on the Evaluation Report (Summary) covers the issues very well indeed.<BR/><BR/>http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2008/12/nsw-healthelink-evaluation-devil-is-in.html<BR/><BR/>Reflecting upon the 10 valid points you and your readers raised in your 17 December blog it is difficult to imagine NEHTA being very supportive of this project.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-50470944792308075082009-01-18T18:28:00.000+11:002009-01-18T18:28:00.000+11:00Problem is - this project began before NEHTA was e...Problem is - this project began before NEHTA was established - under the old HealthConnect regime I believe - and it is not actually NEHTA compliant at a technical and policy level (e.g. consent) as far as I know. So if they praise it, they should also have the needed caveats about what is needed and not keep secret the real evaluation report.<BR/><BR/>David.Dr David G More MB PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06902724829795199526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-65597756838479332922009-01-18T17:55:00.000+11:002009-01-18T17:55:00.000+11:00Apropos the Healthelink Electronic Health Record (...Apropos the Healthelink Electronic Health Record (EHR) pilot and your comment "What I don’t follow is why NEHTA is pushing this trial as a success".<BR/><BR/>It is politically imperative for NEHTA to be able to point to areas where some progress is being made in ehealth otherwise, from the 'big picture' perspective, NEHTA itself becomes irrelevant.<BR/><BR/>If NEHTA could not point to a few Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com