Health Informatics Society of Australia releases blueprint for E-health, gives an F for both Labor and Coalition strategic vision
I've spent enough time in E-Health and complex systems deployments to appreciate the magnitude of the portfolio complexity facing both parties in accelerating EHealth uptake in Australia. The Health Informatics Society of Australia have released their strategic blueprint for Australian E-Health, and after reading through the paper, it's clear that both parties are well under-prepared for the size of the task, and a seriously limited appreciation of the need. With a pincer movement of demand blowout and supply constraints in the near future, driving a need for a 10-fold increase in Health system productivity, Australians ought to be worried enough to start writing of their concerns. A good issue for Get-Up to get involved in, since it's certainly not in their current campaign list.
..Health Informatics is seen merely as an enabling technology with the presumption that if you get the other plans in place, E-Health will somehow sort itself out. We (HISA,sic), on the other hand, believe this to be a major and complex engineering project of the scale of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that can only happen with a good plan and the resources to implement it.
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