The Medical Observer Offers An In Depth Interview With Tim Kelsey. Worth A Read.

This appeared a few days ago:Can this man turn around one of Australia's costliest policy disasters?Antony Scholefield20 July 2017 NEWS REVIEWCan Tim Kelsey resuscitate the moribund My Health Record system?Time Kelsey doesn ’t smile much when you meet him. But then his job probably means he doesn’t have much to smile about. He is the man tasked with rescuing Australia from one of the most expensive policy disasters in the nation ’s history — the My Health Record system.Ten months ago, the Federal Government hired Mr Kelsey, a former journalist and one-time Telstra Health bigwig, to head up the newly created Australian Digital Health Agency.No faceless bureaucrat, the animated and garrulous Brit immediately attracted ple nty of media attention.There were references to his time in the UK when, in 2014, the boss of NHS England posted a parody Downfall video that satirised concerns about patient data being sold off to insurers, casting Mr Kelsey in the role of a manic Adolf Hitler.There... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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