What the Dickens?
It is now almost 5 years since the Australian Government launched its 2006 e-Government Strategy, Responsive Government: A New Service Agenda, and over a year since the “Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0″ Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce was handed … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology – February 2011 Release
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.20 version of the AMT released by NEHTA a few days ago. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. Pity the download process still cannot be … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology – January Release
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.19 version of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade no longer detects and flags both erroneous concepts, and … Continue reading
Closing the Gap
There is much frustration with the slow progress in e-health around the world over the past decade or more. That frustration leads to partisan views and divisiveness across and within organisations about how to improve the situation. Some argue that … Continue reading
Bags of problems
It seems that there are very few people involved in health information standards that are able to discern the difference between a thing in the singular and things in the plural! Perhaps many people can discern the difference but just … Continue reading
Australian Medicines Terminology Upgrade
Healthbase Australia has updated the online Australian Medicines Terminology browser to include the 2.18 version of the AMT released by NEHTA today. All deprecated versions are still available for browsing/searching. This upgrade detects and flags both erroneous concepts, and retired … Continue reading
Bridging the Gaps
Implementing a national Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system through grant funded proposals submitted by interested parties seems to me a strange way to implement national infrastructure of any kind. It might be a common mechanism for funding projects … Continue reading
Hiatus in Global HL7 CDA Challenge
Well it is now several months since I established the Global HL7 Challenge and the deadline for the first part of the challenge has just passed with no respondents. I can only put this down to a global lack of … Continue reading
banking on ehealth liquidity
The Australian Government has released its proposal for a “Competitive and Sustainable Banking System”, consisting of a number of parallel streams, the first of which includes:- “The Government will appoint former Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Bernie Fraser to conduct … Continue reading
Recasting e-health in the USA
On December the 8th, 2010 the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) published an extraordinary “Report to the President realizing the full potential of health information technology to improve healthcare for Americans: the path forward“. This … Continue reading