Re: [LINK] Australian Government spending $256M to transform government but wasting $485M on failed eHealth system

2015-05-16 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 16-May-15 3:04 AM, Stephen Loosley wrote: > Dear Chris, Bernard and Linkers, > > Much respect for your opinions and experience gents, but we **need** an > eHealth system. Stephen, I agree. The question is, do we need the PCEHR? There are already out there many ehealth systems. NSW is buildin

Re: [LINK] Australian Government spending $256M to transform government but wasting $485M on failed eHealth system

2015-05-16 Thread Tom Worthington
On 16/05/15 09:04, Stephen Loosley wrote: > ... we **need** an eHealth system ... Okay, so Australia could design, build and test an e-health system, at a cost of a few tens of million dollars and see if it works, before spending more. So far the Australian Government has spent more than a bil

Re: [LINK] Australian Government spending $256M to transform government but wasting $485M on failed eHealth system

2015-05-16 Thread Karl Auer
On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 09:25 +1000, Tom Worthington wrote: > Okay, so Australia could design, build and test an e-health system, at a > cost of a few tens of million dollars and see if it works, before > spending more. The things that make people angry and dismissive of the current plans, are pre

Re: [LINK] Australian Government spending $256M to transform government but wasting $485M on failed eHealth system

2015-05-16 Thread JanW
At 10:07 AM 17/05/2015, Karl Auer wrote: >The eventual solution, if it is to have any integrity at all, is going >to have to be a distributed database, not a centralised one (think >DNS/DNSSEC), and access to the am individual's data is going to have to >be controlled by the individual. The need to