These two quite long articles appeared this week.First we had:My Health Record: Medics speak upBy Marie Sansom on August 15, 2016 My Health Record: Medics speak upAs the new trials of the My Health Record roll out in Queensland, NSW, WA and Victoria, Government News asks clinicians what might help – or hinder – the progress of the revamped national individual electronic health record.A bit of history The idea of a national individual electronic health record has been around for decades, routinely popping up in report recommendations from government health agencies.It was an idea former Prime Minister John Howard helped spread and one the National Electronic Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) was set up to drive in 2005.Labour introduced the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) in 2012 after two years of GP trials.But from its inception, the electronic health record has been dogged with problems and fraught with complexities and it still has not had the uptake needed...
This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2bd3coN
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
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