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An open source movement in health information?

David Heath
Monday, 27 July 2009 19:19

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there is a very significant factor which will enhance the uptake of personal data management by the health consumer.

This is simply the fact that a growing proportion of the patient population is growing up in a connected world. They EXPECT the services to be flexible, digital and always connected. Something akin to being the "Google Apps" of the health world.

The report recognizes this, along with many of the possible issues of such a regime, suggesting that such a system should ensure that "the national policy framework incorporates open technical standards which provide for interoperability, compliance, confidentiality and security; and" that "these standards are developed with the participation and commitment of state governments, the ICT vendor industry, health professionals and consumers."

Australia is on the cusp of a health information revolution – a chance to drag the health system kicking and screaming from the nineteenth directly to the twenty-first century.

Read the report; become involved.

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