Mr David Gonski AC has been appointed as the first independent chair of the National E-Health Transition Authority.
More details are available here.
http://www.nehta.gov.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=335&Itemid=144
Just why a lawyer and listed company director, and Chancellor of UNSW, is a good choice for this role totally eludes me. I wish him luck but can’t for the life of me see how someone with no apparent record in health or technology is the right person for this role.
The number of directorships he holds also makes one wonder how much time and focus NEHTA can expect.
I do not subscribe to the theory that any good manager can manage anything! Indeed, I see part of the decay of our Health System as being related to the systematic exclusion of health expertise from the management of health service entities.
If Mr Gonski’s role is to try and get the badly flawed NEHTA IEHR proposal through COAG, and funded, then he needs to know – right up front – he has been handed a poison chalice in my view.
The only upside is that it seems a well constituted Reference Forum (with real sector expertise and wide representation) is about to be announced by NEHTA. If this forum can have the influence it should there just may be hope yet. This is, of course, only three years to late!
Life is always lively in e-Health!
David.
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