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

[Stephen Loosley]

Thanks everyone for your respective thoughts regarding the need for an effective eHealth system, perhaps especially in country areas. It is an honest need and after so long, and as Jan says, after so much discussion, it does seem a joke. Except people here are dying. Anyway, all we can do is whinge about it I guess. Which we've all just done. Again. So, I will look forward to doing it again next year, if stiil around this mortal coil. And, thanks again for listening guys.

Cheers,
Stephen     


> Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 10:31:02 +1000
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> From: jwhit at internode.on.net
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Australian Government spending $256M to transform government but wasting $485M on failed eHealth system
> 
> 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 access data for individuals
> >who cannot give their permission can be dealt with by authorising senior
> >staff, and by informing individuals about all accesses to their data.
> >Solid laws around misuse, with actual scary penalties and meaningful
> >recourse for people affected, will do the rest.
> 
> 
> Snip all the repetition of 15 years working in this space, watching it, consulting on it, and being ignored about it.
> How many govs/dept secs have been in over that period? How many budget blow-outs?
> 
> If the $1.5BIL (just the fed system, not the STATE systems sunk costs) and counting had been given to each person in the country, (getting out calculator) is $65/15 years, or $4.4/year. Put that way, it's not all that much. Maybe they should have spent more and actually listened to the people outside the Canberra world view about how to do it better.
> 
> BUT if you take the 2mil signed up, that's $750/patient. Is that a good ROI?
> 
> 
> Jan
> 
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