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[Antony Broughton Barry]

> On 19 Aug 2016, at 6:49 PM, Frank O'Connor <francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Pretty much EVERY digital health initiative over the last 20 years has come to the same sordid end - hamstrung from within and without by politics, incompetence and the old ‘solution in search of a problem’ syndrome … but they do keep trying. 

Being old enough to have doctors giving me written reviews of my health situation every year (or more often sometimes) and sending me off to various specialists I have come to keeping my various reports on Evernote and filling the Health app on my iPhone with piles of data from various monitoring devices (iWatch, Fitbit, fat monitoring scales, glucose monitors, thermometers, blood pressure etc) usually to the confusion of my various health professionals. I was surprised last week having my biannual diabetes check to have my GP somewhat apologetically enrolling me in the governments eHealth database system. I though it had collapsed through lack of interest but obviously GPs are being given some incentive to promote it. 

Tony