Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > > > Thomas Beale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > As a member of RACS, I was interested in what Australia is planning in > Health IT. I even wrote to a professor who was interested in > implementing something for surgical audit and electronic log books. I > mentioned that it is in the best interests of Australia to use open > standards and remain independent of US based software and standards > unless absolutely necessary. I did not receive a reply yet.
The main thing for us is that there remains an option which is a) fit for purpose (EHR and related) and b) not driven directly by large commercial players and c) open in all senses. We have kept on working on openEHR because as far as we can see there is no alternative currently which fits the bill. I don't mean that there is no FOSS EHR software, of course there is, but there are still no good standards for clinical information. Some good work has been done in service models but needs update (in our opinion;-) to 2-level modelling so it can properly take into account archetypes, terminology, guidelines and so on. > > I do hope that FOSS and open standards and OpenEHR and archetypes will > be used from the onset. If there is cross state agreement, they could > pulll off something workable without the huge financial input made by > the British. Well, certainly there is nothing like that amount of money available in Australia for public health IT anyway, so whatever the solution for the future is, one thing we can guarantee is that it will be far cheaper than the vast sea of money being sunk into the NHS approach...but of course, Australia has its own bureacratic stupidities, and state-based secondary health is one of them; the lack of cooperation is probably similar to what occurs in Canada for similar reasons. We will see... - thomas ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/W4wwlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openhealth/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
