Doctors should lose funding if they fail to integrate referrals, discharge and patient information into a national system of e-health records, the Federal Governments main advisory group has said. Yesterday the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission released a series of recommendations designed to kick start the development of national e-health records.Its key message is that Federal Government should guarantee every Australian can “own and control” their own e-health record by 2012.But as part of that process it also said the government should make funding to health providers dependent on their ability to send and receive information in a way that is compliant with the e-health record system.That includes GPs, medical and non medical specialists, pharmacists and health and aged...
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