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  • HealthConnect gets productivity check-up

    The federal government has not demonstrated how its new electronic medical records network would deliver benefits, Australia's productivity watchdog reckons.

  • Hackers on Medicare smart card waiting list

    Privacy advocates have slammed the new Medicare Smartcard, describing it as an insecure and technologically inept implementation.

  • Tasmania to get first taste of Medicare smartcard

    Tasmania is to be the test bed for a new Medicare smartcard which will allow doctors to access patient information from the federal government's planned central repository of medical records.

  • E-health gaining traction: Conference delegates

    Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has openly expressed his frustration at the slow progress towards a single portable electronic healthcare record (EHR) framework -- but early trials in Australia's least populous states suggest that lack of patient buy-in, not technological limitations, may limit the utility of the EHR systems expected to be in place before the year's end.

  • Health IT project a headache: AMA

    One of the government's key technology projects for the health sector has "major problems" and neglects the concerns of Australian doctors, an industry body has warned.

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