Holy Heck - NEHTA is Having People Pay For Access to Their Webinars. Just How is this Justified?

This hit me tonight.

Webinar: National e-Health Strategy – NEHTA Update

Link with the Latest information from NEHTA delivered by Peter Fleming, CEO, NEHTA

Summary

NEHTA is the lead organisation supporting the national vision for e-health in Australia; working openly, constructively and collaboratively with consumers, providers, funders, policy makers and the broader healthcare industry; to enable safer, higher quality, accessible, equitable, efficient and sustainable healthcare.

Under the leadership of Peter Fleming, NEHTA has delivered SNOMED CT, an internationally recognised database of clinical terminology, AMT (Australian Medicines Terminology) and most recently the Healthcare Identifiers Bill which are key foundations to enable e-health nationally.

Mr Fleming is focused on progressing the adoption of e-health standards of national significance through implementation and collaborations in the healthcare sector which will enable the flow of health information.

Online Credit Card Payments Only

Please note that only payments made online by Visa or Mastercard will be accepted.

Details

Available for viewing after 4pm Friday 26 November 2010

Here is the link

http://www.cvent.com/Events/info/Summary.aspx?e=B340D87F-11B9-4485-8359-6371F732FED4

All I can say is just WTF! A publicly funded CEO of a very poor public organisation is charging for information on what it is doing. Does the word ‘outrageous’ jump to mind.

The suggested fee is $35.00!@!

I don't care who is collecting the money. This is just not on!

All these presentations should be available, for no cost, if anyone cares, on the NEHTA web site.

Just utter rubbish!

David.

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