The minister toured the offices of Medicare in Canberra yesterday to look at the various tools that will be encompassed in e-health legislation the government plans to introduce soon.
Ms Roxon says she expects health providers, not the government, to fund the majority of its e-health agenda.
“We believe there's good reasons that healthcare providers and businesses and professionals can pay to upgrade their systems,” she said yesterday.
The government will adopt a more hands-off approach in the execution of e-health, acting instead as an overseer and intermediary between providers, she added.
“This isn’t an entire government enterprise. It’s about government using its role to link the different providers at appropriate times for the benefit of the patient.”
An 'opt-out' system will begin in mid-2010 when unique health identifiers are allocated to consumers and healthcare providers.
But industry groups say that the identifier system will allow personally identifiable information to be linked across national and local health networks.
The minister said she had also conducted her 91st consultation since the release of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) recommendations - this time with organisations with a stake in the commission’s e-health suggestions.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Jared Reed
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