This appeared late last week:http://ift.tt/2qugNOD May 2017MyHR might now be ‘the mother of all red tape’Posted by Jeremy Knibbs In the ABC satire Utopia, the head of department asks a consultant to do an “independent review” of a recent project. The consultant asks: “What do you want the findings to be?”The government-commissioned report by the Siggins Miller consultancy on the My Health Record trials is life imitating art. Here are 10 reasons why this report feels a lot like it is what the Department of Health wanted it to be.1. A compulsory MyHR?So far, not one key stakeholder has bought into the MyHR in a meaningful manner, except, of course, for the government itself. Not patients, not healthcare professionals, not key service providers such as software vendors or private pathology.So, after $1.5 billion and counting, what is the government’s answer to this dilemma? Make it compulsory? Sorry.What if the system and the concept are (or...
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