“First is that the Health Minister will encounter powerful resistance if there is an attempt to implement an NHHRC recommendation to attempt to force adoption of e-Health through the reduction in re-imbursements for services delivered rather than via positive incentives. If that is what is actually planned it could easily cause the mother of all resistance from clinicians and I feel it would be seriously counterproductive to the thrust for e-Health in general.
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David More, Australian Health Information Technology, 1 July 2009
