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.
Read more: AU: Sussan Ley to trial new e-health record for the Fitbit generation
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.
Integration, not innovation, is the key to digital disruption in aged and community care
We’ve all seen what the digital revolution has done to industries such as banking and travel. Disruptive innovations are sought after in these sectors, as they not only improve productivity but help consumers to access services in a more convenient and seamless way. These disruptive innovations are yet to flow through to aged and community care, but they are coming.
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.
Read more: AU: Electronic medicine management to be rolled out in Canberra over two years
More than $40 million is being invested to expand and improve telecommunications services throughout the Northern Territory as part of a three year agreement between the Northern Territory Government and Telstra.
Under the agreement, remote communities across the Northern Territory will benefit, with the territory’s Chief Minister Adam Giles saying that said Telstra and Governments at all levels were working to expand and improve telecommunications.
Read more: AU: Telecommunications for NT remote communities on the improve