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• NEHTA hooks up 267 public hospitals to national e-health system

  The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) said on Thursday that it had worked with CIOs to connect 267 public hospitals and health centres to national e-health infrastructure.
  

• Opinion: Creating the best testbed for e-health

  Australia’s national e-health program has come under scrutiny in recent months due to early teething problems, the laborious process of registering for the service and the lack of incentives for private care participation.
  

• WA Health advancing Health Identifiers

  WA Health is to purchase a major chunk of the underlying software and services to facilitate the delivery of the national Health Identifiers initiative being managed by the National e-Health Transition Authority (NeHTA).

• NEHTA fails to deliver e-health on time: Boyce

  Liberal Senator for Queensland, Sue Boyce, has criticised the National e-Health Transition Authority’s (NEHTA) work in the rollout of e-health projects across the country, claiming it has repeatedly failed to deliver projects on time.

• NEHTA, ACT Govt kicks off MCIS trial

  The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), in collaboration with the ACT Government, has kicked off the trial of a medical supply and inventory system in the state.

• NEHTA adopts Healthelink remnants for Sydney trial

  The NSW Government has successfully agreed with the lead Australian government e-health agency to integrate remnants of the Healthelink trial into the wider, $467 million personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) led by Federal Government.

• Medicare revises healthcare identifier developer agreement

  Medicare Australia has reached an agreement with e-health vendors surrounding a legal blackhole in developer agreements signed for use of individual healthcare identifiers, with hopes a revised license to be released in the coming week will encourage wider use of the identifiers in clinical software.

• IBM to secure e-health records

  IBM Australia has been awarded another major Australian e-health tender, picking up responsibilities for delivering a secure messaging platform that will be used in the Federal Government’s $467 million personally controlled electronic health records (PCEHR) initiative.

• Department of Health reveals e-health partner requirements

  A single party will be responsible for the establishment and ongoing operation of the technology infrastructure required to implement the Federal Government’s $467 million personally controlled e-health records (PCEHR).

• NEHTA releases health identifier plan

  The nation's peak e-health group has released a comprehensive set of documents that outline how the Federal Government's $466.7 million electronic health record/health identifier project will be implemented over the coming years, and how it will work in practice.
  

• NEHTA issues core e-health tender

  The Federal Government today delivered the health sector a much clearer picture of how its giant $466.7 million electronic health records project will be delivered, with the initiation of a major purchasing initiative for the project through the nation’s peak e-health body.

• NEHTA snaps up CSIRO technology for e-health records system upgrade

  The federal government’s national e-health transition authority (NEHTA) is using CSIRO software in its SNOMED CT infrastructure.

• Rudd and Roxon need more leadership on e-Health: CIO

  Mater Hospital CIO, Malcolm Thatcher has called on the Federal Government to show more leadership over e-Health on the back of comments by federal health minister Nicola Roxon touting new legislation.

• NEHTA unveils e-health strategic plan

  The company set up by the Australian, State and Territory governments in 2005 to lead the transition to greater use of e-health in Australia, the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), has released its Strategic Plan to 2012.