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The Australian Medical Association is calling on the new government to extend the existing MBS-funded telehealth rules beyond their expiry date of June 30, asking that the current arrangements continue to December 31 just like other COVID-19 measures. The former Coalition government had planned to cut certain MBS items for telehealth … [read more] |
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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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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 and MedicalDirector software 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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