Up until mid-October last year the Digital Health scene and all the goings on with the myHealthRecord and the various State systems, as well as activity in the private sector was being covered by both Pulse + IT and www.healthcareit.com.au (which was an outpost for the US based HIMSS, which was founded about a year before that.)
These two sites provided detailed coverage and were augmented by the national mastheads and the various technical news sites and various medical news sites.
In mid-October the editor of the site changed – for unexplained reasons. The new editor was producing less in-depth material and was really not breaking much new news. This is often seen in a totally cash strapped industry and I suspect readership of the site dropped!
About a week ago posting by this editor ceased and we now have Berlin (Germany) based correspondent producing material on Australia somehow – as well as having some material from the Singapore HIMSS site contributing articles from Australia to the global site (https://www.healthcareitnews.com/).
Gentle enquiries around the traps seem to suggest that the control of the site has now moved back to the U.S. and that the arrangements with the Australian content manager (Mahlab) have been terminated, presumably by HIMSS.
Bottom line is that it seems we have lost one of the two dedicated Australian based Digital Health news sources. It would be just hopeless if a lot of our Digital Health news was sourced internationally and without much insight. Even with the best will in the world this is second best. Local is much better I believe.
Given the need to hold the ADHA and the Department of Health to account for what they are doing this seems like a very bad outcome for all of us to me.
What do you think?
David.
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