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The statewide roll-out of the Cerner integrated electronic medical record (ieMR) has been given a boost in today’s Queensland state budget, with $240 million promised over the next four years in additional funding and an extra $60m contingency for year five. The ieMR roll-out was paused in 2019 in order to optimise … [read more] |
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The NSW government will spend an extra $4.5 billion this year on workforce measures to try to ease pressure on existing health workers and recruit new staff, along with a $3000 bonus for NSW Health employees in recognition of their work on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. New initiatives for digital health in the budget include … [read more] |
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Melbourne’s Monash Health will no longer accept faxed referrals to its specialist consulting services after July 18 following a two-year project to swap over to electronic referrals for GPs and other private specialists. Monash Health has made all of its specialist consulting services available by eReferral using HealthLink’s SmartForms … [read more] |
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Services Australia has agreed to a grace period up to the end of August for practices using Best Practice Premier that have not yet upgraded to the new Medicare web services-enabled version. BP Software made available the Medicare web services-enabled version of its Saffron release in early March, just before the original cut-off … [read more] |
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