The following popped up this morning.
Rush to deliver e-health eating $1m a day
- by: Karen Dearne
- From: The Australian
- January 17, 2012
THE Gillard government is "burning $1 million a day" to deliver its personally controlled electronic health record system on time and is sending coding work to India in the process.
The National E-Health Transition Authority head of PCEHR implementation, Andrew Howard, said the Accenture consortium was "on track" to deliver a key part of the program's national infrastructure by February 1.
That should set the scene for delivery of an operational system by the July 1 deadline, he said.
"Over the Christmas break, Accenture has been extremely busy building out software," Mr Howard told a vendors web-based seminar. "We're building some of the code offshore in India, and the Indians didn't take a break over the Christmas period. So I'm pleased to say that Accenture is on track to deploy release 1a to us early next month."
Mr Howard said NEHTA was working on some "incredibly tight" timelines. "Everyone says that about every project, but the reality here is we are literally burning around $1m a day at the moment pushing this program through . . . getting things out the door," he said.
Lots more here:
I wonder where the comments on how quality and safety for patients are?
That they are ‘burning’ money like this does not sound much like due care to me.
Just hopeless and really revealing a lack of understanding about what is being attempted - albeit very badly - here!
David.
