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We have been talking eHealth records for years. Almost worldwide, the topic is treated by many in the health informatics arena as a self‑evident necessity, by some health service providers as an investment and re‑training imposition with little direct return to their practices and by health consumers with suspicion. There appear to be countless reasons for this impasse, in Australia as elsewhere.
With the click of a button e-health system will answer all the needs of all in the health care picture as it exists. That is wishful thinking. In my country Pakistan first of all a complete database of existing healthcare services will be required. Next updating of this database will have to be done relentlessly and constantly. The picture has a humungous range. From State-of-the-Art medical facilities to one room medical care centres devoid of doctors, medicine and supportive medical staff there in our rural "outback"!!
To connect this wide range of facility would be like comparing a life saving operation through internet communication, with rescue squad on a "chopper" saving the life of an injured survivor on the slopes of a thickly forested mountain. That would be some communication, coordination, expedited instruction!!! But how would that be for just a beginning!?
On 19 September 2007, Global Access Partners (GAP) held a strategic workshop discussing the challenge of implementing a rational e-health system in Australia in Parliament House, Canberra. It featured a paper commissioned by the Australian Centre for Health Research and written by Professor Michael Georgeff, CEO of Precedence Health Care Pty Ltd and Director of e-Health Research at Monash University.
On September 19 2007 a strategic workshop discussing the challenge of implementing a rational e-health system in Australia was held in Parliament House, Canberra. Convened by Global Access Partners, it featured a paper commissioned by the Australian Centre for Health Research and written by Professor Michael Georgeff, Director of E-health Research, Monash University.
