This appeared late last week:Philips’ Barrow: funding ‘debacle’ hurts e-health innovationFormer health minister Michael Wooldridge says health IT is a “disgrace”.The Australian12:00AM September 7, 2017Sarah-Jane TaskerAustralians want their health information shared among care providers but government funding mechanisms are being blamed for holding back innovation to make that happen.Kevin Barrow, the Australia and New Zealand head for Philips, said patients were frustrated by the inability of the health system to share what seemed to be fundamentally basic and useful information.Michael Wooldridge, who was health minister in the Howard government, argued at a recent industry event that in 2000 Australia led the world in health IT but today it was a “disgrace”.“We don’t still have a functioning e-health and hundreds of millions of dollars have been put into that debacle,” he said.Mr Barrow said one of the problems for e-health was the funding mechanism, adding it was challenged by the...
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