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News stories and opinions about events, and reporting from e-health events & conferences around the world.
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Tue 26th March 2013
Gillard Government passes NDIS Bill through Parliament. Joint Media Release, 21 March 2013. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Bill has passed the Parliament - a major step towards providing peace of mind to people with disability, their families and carers, and to Australians who may acquire a significant and permanent disability in the future. More
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Tue 26th March 2013
Kate McDonald, Pulse+IT, 18 March 2013.
General practices that did not meet the new requirements of the eHealth Practice Incentives Program (ePIP) by the February 1 deadline can still apply for future payments if they become compliant. The new ePIP requires that practices install and begin using a number of eHealth initiatives, including integrating healthcare identifiers into electronic practice records, installing a standards-compliant secure messaging service, begin recording the majority of diagnoses for active patients electronically...
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Tue 12th June 2012
National Men’s Health Week 2012 has been launched, with over 100 events being staged across Australia focused on the theme “Your Health - Your Wellbeing - Your Environment”.The week’s chief organiser David Thompson, from the Men’s Health Information and Resource Centre at the University of Western Sydney, told eHealthspace.org this year’s focus is on the causes and factors behind a man’s health.“When you look at the top causes of death for men, most are the product of decisions made over the course of a lifetime. This year’s events are about...
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Fri 20th April 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced today a 10 year plan aimed at reshaping the delivery of aged care in Australia. The $3.7 billion Living Longer Living Better package is focused on increasing access to home-delivered care, augmenting funding and access to residential care, and addressing the sector’s workforce shortages.The main changes include an increase in Home Care packages from 60,000 individuals currently funded to 100,000, and new means-testing arrangements beginning in July 2014. There will also be annual and lifetime caps...
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Thu 5th April 2012
David Freemantle, general manager enterprise solutions, Fred IT Group (one of 12 wave sites for the national PCEHR in Australia) provided an update on progress to audiences at CHIK’s Health-e-Nation 2012 conference.
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Thu 5th April 2012
Mal Thatcher, CIO at Mater Health Brisbane, provided an update on progress to audiences at CHIK’s Health-e-Nation 2012 conference.
Mater is one of 12 wave sites for the national PCEHR in Australia.
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Thu 5th April 2012
Jane Halton PSM, secretary of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, spoke at CHIK Services’ Health-e-Nation 2012 conference in March, sharing her insights as Australia’s national health records system moves closer to a reality.
"More capability is being deployed on this project than many things I have seen in health. We are building something that is important for the future," she said.
Members of eHealthspace.org can view Ms Halton's keynote video and slideshow below.
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Mon 30th January 2012
The Australian Medical Association joined the chorus of calls for an opt-out model of PCEHR consumer adoption.
In a submission to the Senate Committee inquiry on the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) system, the AMA cites examples from Australia and overseas which indicate opt-in systems can result in participation rates as low as 10 per cent of consumers.
The AMA has joined other organisations including the Consumers Health Forum in pushing for an opt-out model. In addition to poor consumer adoption, the association says...
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Tue 24th January 2012
The National E-Health Transition Authority has provoked fresh doubts about the $467 million PCEHR project after it formally halted most of its pilot ehealth sites today.NEHTA chief executive Peter Fleming announced it had temporarily paused implementation of Primary Care desktop development due to a range of software incompatibilities. Affected pilots include the Primary Care eHealth Network sites of Metro North Brisbane Medicare Local, Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local, Hunter Urban Medicare Local and Accoras (Brisbane South). Also affected...
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Fri 23rd December 2011
The eHealthspace.org team would like to wish you a healthy and safe Christmas and happy New Year.
We're taking a break for a few weeks and will resume regular publishing on 16 January and our RSS newsfeeds will continue to populate the site.
Thank you for supporting us in 2011 and we look forward to continuing the conversation in 2012.
Mark Jones, Editor, eHealthspace.org
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