[LINK] Unable to Register for a e-Health Record

[Kim Holburn]

I was trying to get some information from medicare a few months ago and they told me I now had to create an Australian Government login which I did because I couldn't get the information without it but I really don't like the idea of having one single login for all government departments.


On 2013/Feb/09, at 11:15 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> On 9/02/2013 10:55 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> A letter from the last hospital I was in invited me to register for an
>> e-health record. After going to www.ehealth.gov.au I was directed to
>> www.australia.gov.au where I filled in some more details, until I got:
>> "A previous session has been started and has not completed. Please try
>> again later."
>> 
>> The letter indicated that the e-health  record "... will not
>> contain any clinical data", so I could not see what use it would be,
>> even if I could manage to register for one. So at that point I gave up.
> 
> Tom,
> 
> Can I repost your experience of the PCEHR to David More's blog at 
> aushealthit.blogspot.com.au/ ?
> 
> Does anyone else on Link have any experiences, good, bad or indifferent 
> of the PCEHR?
> 
> IMHO, the PCEHR is yet another IT project heading for failure. In this 
> case primarily because of hubris. They think it's an IT problem, not a 
> health information problem. Although in Tom's case it seems to be a 
> straight out-and-out IT problem.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Sydney Australia
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