This appeared this week:Nov 6 2016 at 6:30 PM Trials indicate increasing patient confidence in My Health RecordMartin Bowles says about 25,000 health summaries a week were being uploaded in October. by Hugh Arnold Since his appointment in 2014, the secretary of the Department of Health, Martin Bowles, has been on a mission to promote culture change for everybody involved in the healthcare industry, including his own department."I did set out quite specifically in the early days to build strategic policy and innovation as the centrepiece. And what drove that was setting up data analytics, evaluation and research."It was a capability we once had for an old world. We now need to build it for the new world. If we don't understand the data and what is happening out there, how are we actually going to make informed policy decisions? And if you can't drive it culturally in our organisations, it won't catch on," Bowles said at the recent Innovation in Healthcare roundtable co-hosted by...
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