Consultation on legislative changes for the PCEHR

The Australian Government is proposing changes to the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system, including renaming it the My Health Record system, and the Healthcare Identifiers Service, in response to reviews of each system undertaken in 2013. Read about the proposed legislative changes here: https://consultations.health.gov.au/ehealth/ehr-and-hi-legislation-discussion-paper-1/supporting_documents/PCEHR%20and%20HI%20Legislation%20Discussion%20Paper%202015%20D15537948.DOCX Have your say here: https://consultations.health.gov.au/ehealth/ehr-and-hi-legislation-discussion-paper-1 And read about the … Continue reading →

P2P project update

AHCSA regretfully confirms SA Health’s withdrawal from the point to point messaging project, which we were hoping would encourage hospital discharge summaries to be sent to ACCHSs via the Argus secure messaging software currently installed at each site. Full story from PulseIt here. Continue reading →

eHealth media release

THE HON SUSSAN LEY MP Minister for Health Minister for Sport MEDIA RELEASE May 10 2015 Patients to get new myHealth Record: The Abbott Government will deliver a rebooted personalised myHealth Record system for patients and doctors that will trial an opt-out, rather than opt-in, option as part of a $485 million budget rescue package … Continue reading →

Updated list of hospitals connected to the PCEHR

Please click the link below to take you to NeHTA’s updated list of hospitals across Australia that are connected to the PCEHR. List of PCEHR connected hospitals Continue reading →

Update on States eHealth progress

PulseIT report on an update on each state’s progress with eHealth and telehealth. Click here to access their article. Continue reading →

Survey – Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) Review

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/pcehrconsultation   The Department of Health is currently consulting with stakeholders on the implementation of the recommendations of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) Review. The outcomes of the consultation will influence the system design, implementation schedule, and the planning for communication, education, and risk management. As a part of the consultation process, a … Continue reading →

NEHTA continues PCEHR development despite cloud over future

Written by Kate McDonald on 02 June 2014. The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) is continuing with plans to improve and add functionality to the PCEHR, despite a recommendation in the Royle review that the agency be dissolved and its role transferred to a new statutory authority. Read more at Pulse IT Continue reading →

Final Review of PCEHR

http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/35C1FC4407C2FAC4CA257BF0001F9EC5/$File/FINAL-Review-of-PCEHR-December-2013.pdf Continue reading →

Budget information on Indigenous Health

To assist you in finding Budget information on Indigenous health, we have made the task easier for you.   Go to the HealthBulletin http://healthbulletin.org.au<http://healthbulletin.org.au/&gt; and click on ‘Australian Government Budget 2014-15: information of relevance to Indigenous health’ (http://healthbulletin.org.au/articles/budget-2014-15-information-of-relevance-to-indigenous-health/).   Links to media releases will be added during the rest of the week as they become … Continue reading →

Telehealth Infrastructure Support Grants 2014 Round 3

NACCHO Aboriginal Health News Alerts NACCHO has received funds from the Department of Health and Ageing under the Telehealth Delivery Project to provide services with grants that will allow them to purchase the necessary infrastructure to undertake Telehealth consultations between specialists and patients. The grant funding under Round 3 is for amounts up to $15,000 … Continue reading →