A health informatics professor from Sydney University today said Australia's e-health systems should be strictly open source rather than using proprietary software.
Over $200 million in technology spending was laid out for Queensland Health in the state's budget released today.
Business-focused telco Pacific Internet has retained the business of around 90 general practitioners (GPs) as part of the government's subsidised AU$35 million Broadband for Health (BFH) program.
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.
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.
It may have had its share of teething pains, but medical clinic chain Medi 7 has used its VoIP and open source Asterisk PABX rollout to improve call routing and slash thousands of dollars in telecommunications costs.
Mothers in NSW can look forward to their maternity data being recorded on a new state-wide database designed to provide better access to life-saving information. However the data will also be made available to GPs over the Web as well as used for research purposes.
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