My Health Record: Medics speak up

Prescription for change.

15 August, 2016

Australia Post readies to stamp Digital Identity

Fahour wants Blockchain to deliver.

17 March, 2016

Medicare outsourcing skunkworks explodes into confusion

Accusations fly as stealth project outed in Estimates.

11 February, 2016

Ley gets $485 million to resuscitate eHealth

NeHTA abolished as doctors get enrolment mandate.

12 May, 2015

Dentists want ‘opt-out’ eHealth record

Review of PCEHR drilled over functionality, training.

23 October, 2014

Return of JeHDI makes Defence Australia’s eHealth leader

Costs double but project clears delivery room.

22 September, 2014

Gonski steps down as NeHTA chair, replaced by Hambleton

Immediate former head of the Australian Medical Association appointed to steer national eHealth project.

26 June, 2014

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.

5 June, 2014

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 medical records unfolds. The Abbott government has revealed it now wants substantial input on what non-government providers can contribute to make eHealth a reality after […]

4 November, 2013

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 the complex requirements to design and implement clinical ICT systems” as the reasons for the state’s major online medical upgrade failing to deliver what it […]

31 October, 2013

Doctors and DoHA hold eHealth crisis talks

By Julian Bajkowski The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has held crisis talks with the head of the federal Department of Health and Ageing, Professor Jane Halton, over the unprecedented walkout of clinical advisors from the nation’s decade long $1 billion effort to build a functional eHealth system. Held on Tuesday, the meeting followed calls by […]

23 August, 2013