Ehealth: AMA call for bush broadband boost
The Australian Medical Association has called on the government to tackle barriers to the use of ehealth and telemedicine in rural and regional Australia.
The Australian Medical Association has called on the government to tackle barriers to the use of ehealth and telemedicine in rural and regional Australia.
The Australian Digital Health Agency has launched a public consultation to help guide the creation of a national digital health strategy.
My Health Record — the system formerly known as the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) — has hit a new milestone with 4 million sign-ups.
Health minister Sussan Ley has announced that a former NHS executive will take the top role at the recently created Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA).
The Northern Territory government has earmarked $185.9 million over five years for its ambitious overhaul of health ICT, the Core Clinical Systems Renewal Program (CCSRP).
The New South Wales government has unveiled a strategy designed to map out the future of eHealth in the state from 2016 through to 2026.
The government has officially launched the revamped national eHealth record but the move to trial an opt-out approach for the system has drawn criticism from privacy advocates.
Members of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (PJCHR) have been unable to agree on whether some measures contained in legislation revamping Australia’s national eHealth record were justified.
The Senate yesterday passed without amendment the government's legislation to revamp the national eHealth record system.
A parliamentary inquiry has endorsed a government bill that will enable the national eHealth system to potentially be shifted to an 'opt-out' model.
Trials of an 'opt out' approach to signups for the national eHealth record will be held in far north Queensland and in the Nepean Blue Mountains region in NSW, health minister Sussan Ley has revealed.
The national eHealth records system had 2,442,824 individuals signed up as of midnight on 20 October, the Department of Health has revealed.
The federal government has introduced a bill that will allow trials of an opt-out approach for the national eHealth record system.
Queensland's new eHealth investment strategy will create around 1000 jobs, according to the state's health minister, Cameron Dick.
The government's move to change the current national eHealth record rollout to an opt-out model has raised concerns among privacy advocates.