[LINK] APH: 'Are Australia's seniors ready for E-health?'

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn
<brd at iimetro.com.au> wrote:
> On 19/03/2012 4:57 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:
>> Australia's population is getting older, and government is gearing
>> for an increased demand for health care services. But do Australian
>> seniors have the skills to access e-health services with the
>> introduction of the online Personally Controlled Electronic Health
>> Record (PCEHR)?
>
> I suggest someone (I haven't got time in 4 days to make a submission)
> points out that a "Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record" is
> more than seniors having the skills to access e-health services.
>
> What part of "Personally Controlled" do they not understand? Oh, silly
> me, NEHTA and DoHA haven't actually explained what Personally Controlled
> actually means.

Well it definitely doesn't mean being in complete control of your
health record, the committee report out tonight confirms that patients
will not be allowed to mark documents "no-access" despite protests
from AIDS and mental health groups
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=clac_ctte/pers_cont_elect_health_rec_11/report/report.pdf