Tom Bowden Offers A Way Forward For Digital Health Now We Know Just How Badly The #myHealthRecord Has Failed.

Here is his paper - comments are mandatory! ----- Changing the Direction of Electronic Health Record Sharing By Tom Bowden I have spent much of the past five years studying shared electronic health records in pursuit of a PhD at Macquarie University, while under the supervision of Professor Enrico Coiera.  Since retiring as Managing Director of HealthLink a year ago I have been working on this full-time. Why? Because I have realised for many years that sharing of patient records is a complex issue that will one day need to be solved properly.  The views below are my own, not those of Macquarie University nor any of its staff. My view of  My Health Record (MHR) is summed up by a quotation attributed to Henry Mencken  “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”.  I believe that the problem really started with Tony Blair ’s infamous statement  “If I live in Bradford and fall ill in Birmingham, I want the NHS to be... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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