It’s Official - Australia Has Lost the e-Health Plot!

The Australian Financial Review has published 2 articles on e-Health today.

The first is here:

http://www.misaustralia.com/viewer.aspx?EDP://20080610000020767467&magsection=news-headlines-home&portal=_misnews&section=news&title=National+health+records+plan+in+disarray

This article reveals e-Health in Australia to be a headless chook and the Federal Health Minister is unable to commit to any real progress before 2012.

That a National E-Health Strategy is being developed somehow is not mentioned! The left and right hands clearly have no idea what each is up to and neither is the Minister!

The second is here:

http://www.misaustralia.com/viewer.aspx?EDP://20080610000020766889&magsection=news-headlines-home&portal=_misnews&section=news&title=AMA+diagnoses+Google+Health+reports

This provides a discussion of the AMA’s cautious support of Google Health.

Both are must not miss bits of reading.

Sadly it is also pretty depressing.

David.