Anger mounts in CPSU and AMA.
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Dentists want ‘opt-out’ eHealth record
Review of PCEHR drilled over functionality, training.
Return of JeHDI makes Defence Australia’s eHealth leader
Costs double but project clears delivery room.
Gonski steps down as NeHTA chair, replaced by Hambleton
Immediate former head of the Australian Medical Association appointed to steer national eHealth project.
Still no date for e-Health review response: take-up remains in single digits
Despite the allocation of another year of funding, neither the Abbott government nor health bureaucrats are yet prepared to commit to an official date for when big changes will happen.
Dentists drill councils over water fluoridation decay
By Dr Karin Alexander* In the 1930s, American scientists and public health researchers made a simple, but profoundly important discovery. People living in towns with around one part per million…
Battle looms over Defence health services
[Editor’s Note: Both Medibank Health Service and the Department of Defence dispute and reject the assertions made by the Australian Medical Association in this article, which was originally published in…
Queensland doctor dispute goes federal
By Julian Bajkowski The industrial relations row over moves by the Queensland government to force the state’s doctors onto individual workplace contracts has escalated to a national level after the…
eHealth examination probes for private sector buy-in
By Julian Bajkowski The private sector and medical providers could soon have a much bigger say in how Australia’s ailing efforts to create a national system of electronic health and…
Poor prognosis for Victorian eHealth
By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s troubled eHealth sector has been handed yet another negative appraisal after the Victorian Auditor General released a report cited “poor planning and an inadequate understanding of…