“e-health is really hard”.
David Hansen – 11 October 2016

“e-health is about connecting things up.”
Rob Wooding, GPCG Forum Brisbane 2002

“In attempting to arrive at the truth, I have applied everywhere for information, but in scarcely an instance have I been able to obtain hospital records fit for any purposes of comparison. If they could be obtained they would enable us to decide many other questions besides the ones alluded to. They would show subscribers how their money was being spent, what amount of good was really being done with it, or whether the money was not doing mischief rather than good.”
(Florence Nightingale, 1859)

The paper medical record is an abomination .. it is a disgrace to the profession that created it. More often than not the chart is thick, tattered, disorganised and illegible. Progress notes, consultant’s radiology reports, nurses notes are co-mingled in accession sequence. The charts confuse rather than enlighten. They provide a forbidding challenge to anyone who tries to understand what is happening to the patient.
(Source: Computing. Vol. 10 No.2, 1993, Bleich.H)