A CSIRO privacy researcher has blamed "leading questions" for the persistence of public e-health concerns despite there being few actual complaints about researchers' use of the data.
Researcher Christine O'Keefe studied Australian regulations and perceptions about using health data in medical research.
The study came as the Government developed a $62 million Population Health Research Network, expected to link scientists with e-health data sources around the country.
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Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the money will expand the number of GP divisions working on new personally-controlled e-health records from the initial sites, in Brisbane, the Hunter Valley and Melbourne.
"Applications are welcome from a variety of patient settings including Divisions of General Practice, professional and non-government organisations, the private sector and others involved in healthcare," Ms Roxon said.
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The growth of ICT exports needs to be supported with an Australian ICT brand, the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has reported.
The latest Australian ICT Trade Update has found that ICT goods and services are in the top 10 exports for Australia and account for 1.8 per cent of exports. During 2009, ICT exports fell 11 per cent to $4.5 billion.
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The submissions will help test initial specifications for the personally-controlled electronic health record (PCEHR), and successful applicants will form a panel of clinical desktop vendors responsible for working with the NEHTA.
The initiative is part of a $466 million investment by the federal government aimed at enabling Australians to register for individual summaries by June 2012.
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NEHTA said the request for proposals would set up a panel of general practice clinical desktop software makers, who would work with the authority and recently named early project sites to test and fine tune early specifications for Government's Personally-Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR.)
Government has set an ambitious target of completing the first phase of the PCEHR program the will let Australians register for an individual health record summary by the middle of 2012. With an initial budget of $466 million, the project was oneof the big ticket ICT initiatives announced in the May budget.
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