PCEHR will save taxpayers
The implementation of ICT can revolutionise the delivery of health care.
It makes so much economical sense to have a standard health record that can be accessed by users and providers, if it can be monitored by an independant authority.
A health record, for example, could eliminate duplicate pathology testing, which costs the taxpayer and only serves to put money in the health provider's pockets. A patient can go to a doctor, who will order a battery of pathology tests to get a diagnosis. If the patient wants a second opinion, the patient may visit a second doctor, who will again order the same battery of tests, from a different pathology provider. As all of these tests are subsidised by medicare, the taxpayer pays for the entire process.
There are no regulations in place to prevent this from occurring.
The Australian government has set up NETHA to manage the transition to an ehealth system.
Yet the process is buried by mountains of oppositon from many sectors of health delivery.
If the government is to be serious about cutting the cost of health to the average citizen, then more resources should be given to assisting in the development of PCEHR.
Interestingly, this article could be given more consideration.
"Most governments hire incompetent private sector actors to waste the public money." ThoughtWorks founder and chairman Roy Singham.
It makes so much economical sense to have a standard health record that can be accessed by users and providers, if it can be monitored by an independant authority.
A health record, for example, could eliminate duplicate pathology testing, which costs the taxpayer and only serves to put money in the health provider's pockets. A patient can go to a doctor, who will order a battery of pathology tests to get a diagnosis. If the patient wants a second opinion, the patient may visit a second doctor, who will again order the same battery of tests, from a different pathology provider. As all of these tests are subsidised by medicare, the taxpayer pays for the entire process.
There are no regulations in place to prevent this from occurring.
The Australian government has set up NETHA to manage the transition to an ehealth system.
Yet the process is buried by mountains of oppositon from many sectors of health delivery.
If the government is to be serious about cutting the cost of health to the average citizen, then more resources should be given to assisting in the development of PCEHR.
Interestingly, this article could be given more consideration.
"Most governments hire incompetent private sector actors to waste the public money." ThoughtWorks founder and chairman Roy Singham.
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