NSW special commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed an aggressive $704 million investment strategy to cure NSW Health's sick information technology systems, in a landmark review published late yesterday.
Tasmania has continued its e-health blitz, putting out two tenders to support its multimillion dollar e-health plan.
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A health informatics professor from Sydney University today said Australia's e-health systems should be strictly open source rather than using proprietary software.
The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), the organisation charged with steering Australia's efforts to unify patient records across the nation's healthcare providers, has asked for patience in the face of growing criticism of its progress.
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