Here Is A Key Reason For Privacy in EHRs to Be Taken Very Seriously. The Surrounding Security is Also Important!

This very useful report appeared a few days ago. Workers staying silent on mental health, with bosses kept in the dark Stephen Lunn From: The Australian August 25, 2011 12:00AM THE stigma surrounding mental illness remains strong enough for nearly four in 10 sufferers to not disclose the condition to their employers. And even for those who do, understanding and support from employers and managers is severely lacking, a study by Sane...

Looks Like There Is Being A Delay With the Release of the Revised Version of the PCEHR ConOps.

On NEHTA’s website - as of Sep 1 - the following Headline is displayed. NEHTA - National E-Health Transition Authority Personally controlled electronic health records (PCEHR) Concept of Operations Following receipt of submissions, the final Concept of Operations document is scheduled for release in August 2011. See www.nehta.gov.au Also from the Government site we have: PCEHR Draft Concept of Operations Consultation The Draft Concept of Operations...

A Range of Perspectives On Personal Health Records (PHRs). Views From The UK and The US.

There has been continuing discussion this week on just what the right approach to patient empowerments with PHRs is. First from the UK we have. HealthSpace up for review again 17 August 2011 Shanna Crispin Yet another review is being carried out into the viability of the HealthSpace organiser, which gives patients access to their Summary Care Record if it exists and they have an ‘advanced’ account. Figures obtained by eHealth Insider show...

It Looks Like The NEHTA CEO Recognises He Has a Tiger By the Tail. Well Done - Now To Let Go!

The following article appeared a few days ago. It's like putting a man on the moon Published on Tue, 23/08/2011, 03:02:31 By Yasmin Noone No goal is too big when you have inspiration. CEO of the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), Peter Fleming, has likened the once thought impossible but successful job of putting a man on the moon to one other major task currently at hand – the creation of the Personalised eHealth Record (PCEHR)...

Heavens This Does Seem Like An Awful Lot of Money! I Wonder Where It Is Going?

The following appeared today. NEHTA grabs half of $400m records spend Karen Dearne From: The Australian August 30, 2011 12:00AM THE National E-Health Transition Authority has collared an estimated $200 million so far for the 18-month run-up to the Gillard government's personal e-health records launch next July 1, with more money to come. The Transition Authority received some $110m in base funding for e-health standards work between January...

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 29th August, 2011.

Here are a few I have come across this week. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. General Comment The main news of the week seems to be that we have had another ‘Petronius Arbiter / Charlton Ogburn’ moment with NSW Health and a new re-organisation is under way....