A Stalwart Of The Australian E-Health Scene Reveals Ongoing Frustration With Progress!

This appeared last week:Australian health IT sage looks back to the future and sees what went wrongNatasha Hancock | 29 Sep 2017 He ’s a visionary in the field whose seminal 2004 BMJ paper predicted the ways healthcare would be transformed by technology, but as we approach his 2020 deadline Professor Enrico Coiera says companies have held back progress and patients are still being put at risk.It must have seemed such a long wa y away, but Coiera boldly foretold the future when he described a 2020 in which technology was assimilated into clinical practice.“The world may be such that as a clinician you work in flexible virtual teams and some of your colleagues are computers. You would of course instinctively mistrust clin icians who always know the answer without consulting the information grid, and patients often choose to be the team leader,” Coiera, now Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University and Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, wrote in... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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