Sometimes you really have to wonder just who some people think they are!
E-health is on its way
Karen Dearne | October 28, 2008
HEALTH Department secretary Jane Halton says work on basic e-health standards is nearing completion.
Ms Halton told a Senate Estimates committee that the "nerd-relevant things which the public do not have any interest in but which are needed to make the system workable" were now getting "pretty close".
The Health Department was working towards the first version of a universal health record, which would be available in the short to mid-term.
See rest of the short article here:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24561094-15306,00.html
These comments are just outrageous and show a total lack of insight into, and a pretty much total ignorance of, e-Health. The work is nowhere near done and if she does not know that she is not fit to hold here present position in my view.
I don’t see why any senior bureaucrat thinks it is OK to describe Health IT professionals as nerds.
This is really very sad and bodes ill for any progress in the sector with leadership of this appalling quality.
David.
Note: the Australian IT website has now been updated - and the insults to those working in the Health IT field as 'nerds and propeller heads' just keep coming.
A serious pox on her ignorant house!
D.
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