On Wednesday, federal Health Minister Sussan Ley announced two new trials of the so-far-unsuccessful, personally controlled electronic health record – rebadged as “My Health Record”.
These will run at the start of 2016 in rural north Queensland and the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
The key difference from the current system is that enrolment has been switched to opt out rather than opt in. This means any of the one million patients included in the trials who don’t want their data shared will have to actively ask not to be part of the system.
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ANZ Bank chief technology officer Patrick Maes believes the Australian government needs to follow in the footsteps of India and Europe when it establishes a digital identity framework.
A top priority for the federal government's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has been to establish a trusted digital identity framework, but for Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) chief technology officer Patrick Maes, the principles and standards the government is looking to set are unnecessary.
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Australia's e-health record system has brought down the rate of mortality in Queensland, according to the CEO of CSIRO.
The Australian government's e-health record system is a lifesaving initiative, according to the chief executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), who said the scheme has been so successful in Queensland that the mortality rate has decreased.
The government's new e-health system, which will collate medical records, will also be able to be shared broadly, such as with gym instructors and even third-party companies like Fitbit.
One million Australians will trial the government's new e-health system in 2016, which will collate their medical records and make them available to health professionals, gym instructors and even third-party companies like Fitbit – the maker of wearable exercise tracking devices.
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A new system that could stop the accidental doubling up of medications will be introduced in the ACT.
Paper prescriptions and medication records will be phased out as ACT Health rolls out a new electronic medication management system over the next two years.
The MedChart system will replace the existing paper-based medication processes across Canberra Hospital and Health Services inpatient, outpatient and community, and inpatient areas at Calvary Health Care, in Bruce.
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