Election analysts predict that it could take as much as two weeks to decide the fate of the Australian Government, but planned e-health measures are expected to progress in as little as a month.
The $12.5 million provided by the Labor party during the election campaign to three pilot sites in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, is expected to yield a proposal for the implementation of voluntary, personally controlled e-health records on a national scale by the end of September.
Weiterlesen: Australia: E-health measures progress as minority government looms
This use of the National Broadband Network was the centrepiece of the party's campaign launch on Monday.
And the department is also demanding further information on Labor's proposed sale of radio spectrum as the government heads to tomorrow's poll with several promises that have not been independently costed. The government is running late with the submission of several policies, with six worth a total of $233 million filed yesterday, six days after the deadline had passed.
Weiterlesen: Australia: Cost of Labor's online health scheme a mystery
"The actual design is still to be developed but the easiest way to think of this is to think about online banking, with clear information like allergies and medications upfront," she said during an online chat on The Australian's website this afternoon. "But you control access and information is very secure."
Labor has allocated $466.7 million in this year's Federal budget to deliver e-health over the next two years. Earlier this year Roxon set the deadline for the portal to be ready by July 2012. She said today that a patient portal used by GP partners in Brisbane could be the prototype for the national system.
Weiterlesen: Australia: e-health just like online banking: Roxon
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey told The Age today that the failure of the Howard Government's Access Card had been his biggest political regret and that he would "absolutely" re-introduce a similar scheme should his party win the election. The scheme would require "fair dinkum consolidation" of government IT agencies.
"Whether you go a card or not, I don't know. Everyone has a Medicare card already, but that's old technology. We're spending $140 billion to $150 billion a year on health and welfare, but what productivity improvements have there been in service delivery? None," Hockey told The Age.
Weiterlesen: Australia: Coalition confused over national ID card
Effective leadership and coordination of Government 2.0 across agencies will, as always, be a critical ingredient of success.
Weiterlesen: Australia: Victoria: Govt 2.0 heading down fragmented path