[LINK] Building the Australian National Health Network

[Roger Clarke]

At 10:55 +1100 14/3/10, Tom Worthington wrote:
>What I had in mind was something more like NBN Co. ...

NBNCo is an infrastructure provider, at a deep level, Layer 2+.

eHealth is applications layer (5 or 7, depending which model you use).

Apart from which, the idea of 'a' system, and 'a' health record, is 
complete nonsense.  And that's what the childish minds who populate 
the executive offices of organisations like NEHTA mean when they use 
the singular 'Australian National Health Network'.

They should switch their efforts away from a singular database and a 
singular identifier, and focus on things that would actually help us, 
in particular a federated architecture, inter-operability features, 
demonstrators, reference code, and lead examples of specific 
applications.  </end recording>

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