“The iPads will allow doctors and nurses to access any web-enabled application run by their hospital as they move around the hospital, as well as allowing them to tap into health information resources,” health minister Daniel Andrews says.
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Dr Pesce said that the availability of high speed, broadband internet access would allow rural and remote Australians to have access to medical services that they would otherwise have to travel hours to access.
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In a new report, titled A Rising Tide of Expectations, consumers were found to be ready and waiting for the government to deliver an individual e-health record – what they see as a basic Australian right.
In March this year, CSC (a company with an interest in delivering e-Health solutions to government) commissioned an independent, national Newspoll phone survey of 1208 Australian consumers to understand how important they believe it is to have an individual e-health record. The report found that 91 percent of participants want to see their healthcare data in one place.
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It will deliver 100 megabits per second which is 100 times faster than current connections.
Another 20 towns will get next generation wireless which is 20 times faster.
But patients and doctors are divided over how much control individuals should have over the contents of the record and whether they should be able to add to it themselves.
So-called e-health records - intended to improve the quality of patients' treatment by ensuring the health workers who treat them have access to all relevant information - are central to health reforms proposed by the federal government and are set to be implemented with the states.
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