In the last week a paper developed by the luminaries of the Australian Health Information Council has been released , having been finalised in sometime in August, 2007. The paper purports to suggest the Future Directions in E-Health for Australia for the next five years. The release of the paper was publicised on the blog a few days ago. See: http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2008/03/ahic-future-directions-paper-now-in.html The recommendations made are as follows: "1.1 Recommendations In considering its advice, AHIC recommends the following: 1. That a comprehensive national eHealth strategy be developed in consultation with the Jurisdictions, industry, the community and health services, and that this strategy encompasses the advice of AHIC contained in this document. 2. That AHMAC recognise that eHealth is the cost of doing business in the 21st century healthcare and that this will require continuity of investment, accepting that products and hardware will need to be...
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