Tag: My Health Record

Budget pours $1.8bn into critical govt IT systems

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government will spend another $136.1 million upgrading the legacy systems behind the country’s business registers, bringing new money for the latest attempt at the long-running rebuild to...

Verizon re-inks My Health Record certification deal

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The rapid expansion of Australia’s digital health database has more than doubled the cost of certifying the credentials of organisations that use it, new contract disclosures show. Services authenticating and...

Government pledges sweeping medicines database reforms

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Healthcare providers will be able to access individual patients’ medication histories in real-time, the federal government pledged Wednesday, to reduce medication errors, adverse drug reactions or inappropriate use. Health...

Healthcare still running on paper, not platforms: report

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Australian clinicians are still heavily dependent on paper-based systems to share routine information, new government data reveals, despite a decade of investment in digital health infrastructure. Healthcare providers still...

Telstra Health lands $33m My Health Record deal

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Telstra Health has won a $33 million contract with the federal government to replace the My Health Record’s clunky PDF format with a new open-source health data sharing standard....

My Health Record infrastructure goes to market

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The agency behind My Health Record has gone to market to start carving up the decades-long $780 million Accenture contract underpinning the national data system, but is sticking with...