• E-Health Records marred by project, governance failures: APF

  The Australian Government’s approach to managing personally controlled electronic health records (PCEHRs) has resulted in poor governance and repeated project failure, a Senate committee hearing into the PCEHR Bill 2011 has heard.

• GPs not ready for e-health records

  General Practitioners are not technically nor functionally ready for the advent of personal e-health records, a representative body for the industry has warned.

• Healthcare Identifiers Bill passed

  The Federal Government passed through the Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010 and the Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 this week, following four months of debate and a last minute push by the Department of Health and Ageing and the National eHealth Transition Authority (NeHTA).

• Complete health identifier service still months away

  Despite efforts to have the healthcare identifier (HI) service up and running by 1 July, the National eHealth Transition Authority (NeHTA) believes the service could take years to fully implement.

• Poll: Do you think the Healthcare Identifiers Bill will transform the e-health system?

  The proposed Healthcare Identifiers Bill is a highly contested issue of late. The Government has recently announced changes to the bill as a result of public and industry pressures and the criticism from industry advocates is rife.

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