Insurance company Bupa wants the Federal Government to provide anonymous patient data from the Personally-Controlled E-Health Records (PCEHR) system to companies for research on Australian health.

The Department of Health and Ageing (DOHA) today outed its draft operational blueprint for the development, implementation and ongoing operation of personally controlled e-health records (PCEHR).

"The current proposal by the Australian government to provide PCEHR over the internet will allow for the exposure of these records to theft and compromise," AusCERT told the Senate inquiry into the ...

news Following a protracted Freedom of Information battle, the Federal Government has finally released a report into the the troubled Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) project, ...

A legal issues paper will also be released shortly for public consultation, she told a Senate estimates hearing this week. "The legislative discussion paper will go into the regulatory elements, ...

news Technology media outlet Delimiter has filed a Freedom of Information request for a report reviewing the Federal Government’s troubled Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records project begun ...

The Department of Health has been forced to own up to two inadvertent breaches of the national health records system in the past 12 months, the Information Commissioner has revealed. Legislation ...

The government has failed to meet a self-set target of 500,000 registrations of its Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) by July 1. As at June 30, the Department of Health and Ageing ...

The most important factor in getting more consumers to use the Government’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) will be medical provider-friendly software that will be released by ...

The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has published its final Specifications and Standards Plan for the Federal Government’s $466.7 million Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record ...

There’s little evidence that shared summary records significantly benefit health outcomes. Lu/Flickr The Federal Government is introducing a new system for electronically managing health information – ...