NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth
This is a companion discussion topic for the original eHealth News article:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original eHealth News article:
Wow! I’m a little shocked that this government has chosen to centralise this. Normally they are highly critical of the other team for doing exactly that sort of thing.
Of course, this will make virtually no difference apart from generating significant organisational churn whilst continuing the same dysfunctional digital solution/product procurement approach. Will likely cost more, and lock us into worse products for more money, and for longer. Sigh.
How about instead following the lead of several forward-thinking European governments and investing in locally optimised (and co-ordinated) open source solutions rooted in open standards, which:
- ensure our data and application sovereignty
- are designed from the ground up for ease of interoperability
- build local (i.e. national) capability
- are better adapted to New Zealand conditions
- synergise with the efforts of other countries which have similar values
- are free from financial shackles to US-based multinationals
This applies to health just as much as any other area.
More reading on Denmark’s journey with this:
The difficulty we have with open source solution is the lack of support ecosystems that can delivery at scale. Capabilities are not something invested in New Zealand, and many are single point of failures when dealing with linux based products.