This appeared last week:Australia’s most urgent digital health care issue is appalling interoperabilityJeremy Knibbs and Andrew Birmingham / August 18, 2017 Severe interoperability problems in the healthcare sector are holding back efficiency, massive cost savings for government, and, most importantly, patient safety.Each year it is believed that as many as 18,000 deaths are caused or at least expedited in Australia by medical errors. A lot of these errors have their origins in a digital ecosystem beset by bespoke secure communications systems that simply that don’t talk to each other.In general practice, there are about 18,000 fax machines, which currently do most of the grunt work of secure messaging for things like referral letters to specialists and hospitals, and, at times test results. That gives a very clear picture of how stuck in the dark ages healthcare messaging and data sharing remains.It’s become a high priority for the recently formed federal body, The Australian Digital...
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