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• Evolving citizen portals to enable digital government

  Why some agency portals have achieved poor outcomes and what needs to be done to improve them as the transition to digital government steps up a notch.

• Digitising healthcare: The state of e-health in Australia

  We look at several examples of how digitisation is transforming the healthcare industry.

• E-health record should be opt-out: Review

  The Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) should be renamed 'My Health Record' — MyHR — and shift to an opt-out model, according to a review of the system commissioned by the federal health minister, Peter Dutton.

• Government to spend $8 million on eHealth system improvements

  Patients and healthcare professionals will be able to access blood tests and x-ray results online as part of the national personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system.

• Australian doctors give patients less control over their e-health records: survey

  Doctors in Australia are more resistant to giving patients’ control over electronic health records than doctors in other countries, according to an Accenture survey.

• Gov invests $10m in another eHealth initiative

  The Federal Government will invest $10 million in an eHealth initiative which will enable people to provide information on the health care they wish to receive at the end of their life.

• 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.
  

• NEHTA licenses CSIRO software for e-health rollout

  The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has licensed software from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to aid the move to a standardised dictionary of clinical terms as part of the Federal Government’s PCEHR project.

• Federal Govt introduces e-health legislation

  The Federal Department of Health has introduced e-health legislation into Parliament pertaining to its $467 million Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project, scheduled for completion by 1 July 2012.

• NEHTA releases final e-health Specifications and Standards Plan

  The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has published its final Specifications and Standards Plan for the Federal Government’s $466.7 million Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project.

• Federal Govt sheds light on next round of e-health record funding

  The Federal Department of Health has revealed detailed plans for the third round of funding to be allocated to the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) next month for the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR).
  

• GPs get prepared for e-health records

  The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has launched revised information security standards and a workbook in order to prepare GPs for the Federal Government’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR).

• DoHA confirms next round of PCEHR funding in negotiations

  The Federal Department of Health has confirmed it is in negotiations for the third tranche of funding to be allocated to the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) for the $466.7 million Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project.

• Accenture wins PCEHR infrastructure contract

  Global technology services firm Accenture has been chosen by the Federal Government as the national infrastructure partner for its $467 million personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) project.

• 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.