The discussion and questions ran for 1.5 hours. The most interesting thing I gleaned was that the emphasis of the new - approximately 5 year - Strategy would be to get what Tim Kelsey referred to as the 'foundations' in place and that the foundations now included the myHR - along with SMB etc. (So this is really an admission that from 2008 (The old Strategy) to 2016 we were spinning our wheels and now is the time to move boldly forward.) The process will be that now we have all been consulted (ends tomorrow) there will be the creation of a Strategy, this will be approved by the COAG health ministers and then will be made public along with a four year work plan and, presumably, some funding. Interestingly it seems the opt-out evaluations are virtually complete - and have apparently been successful - and that the new Strategy will be focused on the collection of evidence of benefit of all this new investment going forward. Apparently no evidence has been gathered of benefit to...
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/2khTVRG
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
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