Citizens, Patients and Policy: A Challenge for Australia's National Electronic Health Record.

نویسنده

  • Christopher Morris Showell
چکیده

Australia will implement a personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) over the next three to five years. Development of an e-health policy framework to support this initiative has involved healthcare providers and patients, but the discussion appears to have bypassed non-patient citizens. There is a risk that this omission may result in difficulties with implementation and uptake of the new system.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia

دوره 40 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011