The association of 800 GPs and 200 practices, known as GPpartners, has rolled out electronic health records for patients with chronic illnesses in Brisbane's north and is moving to install the technology in Western Australia's Goldfields region.
Chief executive Kerry Dalton says the CAB will use the grant, along with another $340,000 provided by the Consumer Affairs Ministry, to develop a website that will provide information and links to the 50,000 services listed on the organisation's database.
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Medical staff in the Greater Southern Region will soon be able to take advantage of a remote diagnosis system after receiving a funding boost of more than AU$2 million from each of the federal and New South Wales administrations.
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"In an area such as health, this lack of operational knowledge can have critical and even life-endangering consequences," the society's submission to the independent review of NEHTA's performance says.
"There is a concern that the almost academic approach could lead to complex, costly and possibly unsafe systems being implemented," the submission says.
The organisation, which employs 70,000 and has an annual budget of $6 billion, plans to benchmark the cost of its IT services and enterprise applications, as well as what it is paying for infrastructure, including storage, networks, desktop support and helpdesk.
Queensland Health plans to run the benchmarking studies once a year for the next three years, with a contractor to be signed up for an initial review this year, with the option of up to three annual cycle extensions building on the results of the first assessment.