A number of difficult technical and medico-legal hurdles still need to be overcome but the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' eHealth expert committee chairman Nathan Pinskier is quietly confident that, if the goodwill remains, the clinical and the medical software communities can achieve the goal of a functioning, interoperable secure messaging system.
Dr Pinskier, who was named as co-chair of an independent secure messaging program board set up by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) late last year, has been there and done that before as a clinical lead with the now disbanded National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA).
