We All Seemed To Have Been Lured Into Some Zombie Like State Of Inertia Regarding The #myHealthRecord.

Earlier today I tweeted this little contribution.Dr David More ‏   @davidmore 4h hours ago 'Does anyone have a clear reason as to just why the Government wants to collect all our private health information in a large Government owned and operated data base and spend $billions doing so with no evidence of clinical benefit?' Sadly the silence in response was deafening. The source of my concern is that there has been altogether too much acceptance of the status quo and really a lack of asking the more fundamental questions.Among these are questions like:1. What is the evidence we actually need the myHealthRecord System with its very considerable startup and operating costs and rather weak justificatory evidence?2. If we do need a secondary electronic aggregation of our health information (which inevitably will be partially incomplete and out of data at best) to be held by the Government are we going about it the right way in terms of utility, workflow support and useability?3.... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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