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    The Victorian government has hired Deloitte for AU$1.3 million to develop an Australia-wide e-health strategy.

  • Victoria's e-referral project steams ahead

    The Victorian state government is pushing ahead with plans to implement electronic referral functionality within the state's medical sector.

  • 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.

  • Healthy challenges for e-health

    Unless we can prove that electronic health records work, how can we justify additional IT spending to doctors, nurses, and patients?

  • AU e-health service awaits funding help

    Developers of an Internet-based remote health care system that may assist early diagnosis of blindness in remote and aboriginal communities are not confident of its swift approval for Medicare funding.

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