A National Health Policy Roundtable, which was hosted by the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) on Monday 21 April, delivered three comprehensive position papers to the Federal Minister of Health & Ageing's office, recommending a broad range of reforms across the spectrum of the health system.
"The three position papers covered the following critical areas for the future of our health system:
Data and Benchmarking;
Information Management; and
Service Integration.
"The event was a great success and achieved the overall goal of developing practical policy options that will make the health system safer, more efficient and more transparent to consumers," said Ms Prue Power, AHHA Executive Director.”
The important paper, from the perspective of the this blog is the Information Management paper.
Your blogger worked with Dr Michael Legg and Mr Richard Dixon-Hughes to draft this submission – assisted by a great number of excellent contributions from all sorts of experts – all listed in the document.
This all took days of voluntary non-paid effort on the part of all – and they all deserve a decent amount of thanks for the free contribution that was made.
A good read to see what I, and others, think we should be doing in e-Health in short term. The exception is the last recommendation, which was not discussed with the drafting group, and which I think needs a bit more thought.
The joint AHHA, HISA document can be found on the page identified here
http://www.aushealthcare.com.au/publications/publications_by_group.asp?id=3Enjoy.
David.
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