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News (14)

• COAG commits to health IDs in 2010

  The Council of Australian Governments yesterday confirmed the goal of introducing individual healthcare identifiers within the next year and vowed to put draft legislation on the table for consultation.

• Roxon preparing e-health reforms

  Health Minister Nicola Roxon has finally turned her gaze to e-health, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said today.

• Roxon lost on e-health, opposition claims

  The Federal Government's lack of a true electronic health agenda had left an opposition offer of bipartisanship on the issue dangling useless by the wayside, Shadow Health Minister Peter Dutton said yesterday.

• Health identifier still privacy minefield

  Health ministers from around the country said yesterday that more consultation on privacy protections was necessary before any implementation of national individual health identification records could proceed.

• Budget 2009: AMA pushes e-health agenda

  The Australian Medical Association has named e-health infrastructure as one of the highest priorities to receive cash from the government's $10 billion Health and Hospitals fund, in a submission to the 2009-2010 Federal Budget released today.

Blogs (2)

• E-health too unsexy for COAG

  There will always be something more politically sexy than e-health for state governments, meaning the National E-Health Transition Authority's business case for a national electronic medical record might just sit on the shelf gathering dust forever.

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  The people's NBN, now with 1001 uses

  Faced with a renewed threat in newly-appointed Tony Abbott and unknown-quantity communications portfolio ankle-biter Tony Smith, Stephen Conroy responded this week in the way any politician would: he gave lots, and lots, and lots of speeches.

Features and Case Studies (4)

• E-health: Consultations down the wire

  A Sydney-based start-up is offering a way for doctors to track and bill their clients for consultations over the phone and by e-mail.

• Australian e-health: Where to from now?

  What this new NEHTA funding has done is ensured that its leaders feel vindicated in the way they have behaved they have essentially been 'patted on the head' and any real stimulus for 'root and branch' change has been lost.

• Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up

  What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.

• Cyberbludging special: Acceptable usage

  There's no shortage of tools to monitor and filter employees' use of the Internet and IT resources. But can blocking really save money?

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