Let Us Not Get Misty Eyed About The Tim Kelsey Legacy – He Has Been A Failure For Australian Digital Health I Believe.

In the brief statement regarding the Kelsey departure from the ADHA we read the following. "During [Kelsey's] time, the agency has done much to be proud of, particularly working with stakeholders and the community to provide more than 22 million Australians with an online summary of their key health information through their My Health Record, and to support the introduction of e-prescri bing," ADHA said in a statement.” I think a small fact check of his actual achievements is in order. In his 3 year tenure. 1. He managed one of the worst Government policy implementations of a major initiative that left 22 million rather startled Australians with an incomplete, unreliable and p retty inaccessible online summary of some of their personal health data. 2. So badly conceived was his plan for ‘opt-out’, and the associated marketing and PR, that 2+million Australians took anxious steps to have nothing to do with the whole #myHealthRecord initiative and an annoyed Government found itself... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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