It Is Time For the Readers Of This Blog To Do Some Work And Help With Australian E-Health Openness and Transparency.

As I reported a few days ago we are in the twice yearly process of Senate Estimates Committee hearings. This is an opportunity for Senators to ask bureaucrats and responsible Ministers probing questions on just what is going on behind the scenes in their Department and to try and winkle out some information and accountability. Both NEHTA and the E-Health Team from DoHA attend and are questioned for about 1 hour. It is likely this will be happening in the sessions between Monday  28 May to Thursday, 31 May 2012. It would be fair to say that my experience of having watched the live feeds of the last few years of these Q & A sessions suggests the bureaucrats are really first cousins of Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes Minister in terms of their capabilities to talk for the hour and say essentially nothing despite the best efforts of those asking the questions to have some light shone in the dark internal holes of the Department. From this I have concluded that what is needed...

This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.