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Healthcare software vendor Allscripts sees its involvement in a $420 million project in South Australia as a beachhead to the rest of the country.

Royal District Nursing Service has picked InterSystems HealthShare™ as its healthcare informatics platform.

Just one in every ten Australians is expected to opt for a personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) over the next two years, despite the Government’s hefty $467 million investment in the programme.

The Royal Australian College of GPs has stepped up its demands for GPs to receive incentives to use, and contribute data to, the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records that are to be introduced from next July.

Australian medical software company Zedmed has signed insurance provider MLC as the second customer for its medical record exchange service. The MRE service allows authorised insurance agents to access and search medical information required to process claims or provide health insurance premium quotes.

State and Federal Governments have delivered millions of dollars' worth of work for Accenture in the last 24 hours which has been confirmed as lead technology vendor for the development of the IT infrastructure to support the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) - a gig worth almost $48 million - and also as the developer of a national e-conveyancing programme.

The National eHealth Transition Authority has responded to the no-holds barred attack it faced yesterday from Queensland Senator Sue Boyce who accused it of poor progress in terms of delivering an electronic health platform for all Australians, and also called into question the value of a personal controlled electronic health record (PCEHR).

The Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record - which has secured Government funding of more than $466 million - could be scrapped by a Liberal Government. Senator Sue Boyce, Liberal Senator for Queensland, used a speech at a Sydney health administration conference today to claim there was no established evidence-based case for the benefits of a PCEHR; attack the National eHealth Transition Authority; and, brand much of the Government investment made to date in e-health initiatives a waste of taxpayer money.

Healthcare funding models which effectively penalise doctors for keeping patients out of hospital are acting as a brake on widespread adoption of teleheath services.