{"id":17,"date":"2010-08-22T12:20:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T12:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.healthbase.info\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-08-23T23:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T23:20:04","slug":"nehtas-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"NEHTA&#8217;s Blueprint !?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEHTA has published a <a class=\"wp-caption\" title=\"NEHTA Blueprint\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nehta.gov.au\/about-us\/nehta-blueprint\" target=\"_blank\">blueprint<\/a> for its forthcoming program of work. I&#8217;m not sure why they have labelled this \u00a0a &#8220;blueprint&#8221;, rather than a plan. Possibly they have borrowed from Infoway, who have been publishing blueprints for many years, starting back in <a class=\"wpgallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infoway-inforoute.ca\/lang-en\/about-infoway\/news\/news-releases\/86-infoway-releases-technology-blueprint-that-will-guide-and-accelerate-the-development-of-interoperable-electronic-health-records-in-canada\" target=\"_blank\">2003<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other blogs have already commented on the blueprint, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/aushealthit.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/nehtas-blueprint-do-we-learn-anything.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehealthcentral.com.au\/2010\/08\/nehta-blueprint-online\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My view is that such a &#8220;blueprint&#8221; is long overdue, but this lacks sufficient implementation detail to be called a blueprint. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com\/dictionary\/blueprint#blueprint__5\">Oxford Advanced Learner&#8217;s Dictionary<\/a>, we have:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; white-space: normal;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #cb704d;\">\ufeff<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"white-space: normal; font-family: Helvetica;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ca0760;\">blueprint (for something)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times; white-space: normal;\"><strong>: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times;\">a plan which shows what can be achieved and how it can be achieved<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times;\">[e.g.]\u00a0<em>a blueprint for the privatization of health care<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope to be able to contribute to a genuine and useful &#8220;blueprint&#8221; for e-health in Australia in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEHTA has published a blueprint for its forthcoming program of work. I&#8217;m not sure why they have labelled this \u00a0a &#8220;blueprint&#8221;, rather than a plan. Possibly they have borrowed from Infoway, who have been publishing blueprints for many years, starting back in 2003. Other blogs have already commented on the blueprint, at least here and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,10,13],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-nehta","tag-politics","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthbase.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}