Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of Australian and New Zealand health, IT and eHealth news:
Patients are people, not 'consumers', says Child
NZ Doctor ~ Cliff Taylor ~ 25/09/2015
NZMA chair Stephen Child has strongly criticised a draft discussion paper from the Health Quality & Safety Commission, describing it as difficult to understand and marred with inappropriate terminology.
Fixing Qld Health’s IT systems: start with the plumbing
iTNews ~ Allie Coyne ~ 24/09/2015
Queensland Health will eschew a big bang transformation of its legacy systems in favour of a lower-risk, incremental approach to systems replacement in the hopes of reviving its IT fortunes.