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| Subject: OZschwitz patients reject statist eHealth Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:59 pm | |
| Only 5029 people have joined the federal government's controversial $466 million eHealth system since it was launched on July 1.
Figures obtained from the Department of Health and Ageing show that each individual to take up the personally controlled electronic health record system has so far cost the government $92,662.
Patients can volunteer to join the system, which stores all their health information, including test results and prescriptions, in a national database. It is the first time patients will be able to access their medical details.
The Coalition's eHealth spokesman, Andrew Southcott, compared the slow adoption to the government's problems with the Building the Education Revolution program and pink batts installation.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/patients-reject-ehealth-20120811-24179.html#ixzz23IElmNla
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