Tag: Medicare

Services Australia puts Medicare tech upgrade back on track

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Technical staffing constraints that led the latest tranche of the federal government’s Medicare payments system upgrade to report a ‘red’ status all of last year are on track to...

Medicare payments system upgrade on the rocks

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A long-running upgrade of the legacy payments systems underpinning Medicare has spent the last year on life support, with the latest phase of the critical overhaul stamped a project...

My Health Record gets $429m for technology upgrade

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
My Health Record will receive a $429 million cash injection from the Albanese government after an expert taskforce recommended the digital health platform be modernised to improve information sharing....

Legacy tech poses ‘significant risk’ to Medicare system: Review

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government should urgently consider options to replace the legacy technology underpinning the Medicare payments system to address fraud and non-compliance by doctors, according to a government-commissioned independent...

Govt brings digital Medicare cards to myGov

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australians now have the option of adding a digital Medicare card with anti-fraud features to the myGov app, as the federal government continues works to integrate the card into...

Medicare data-matching bill passes Parliament

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will launch a new data-matching scheme for sensitive medical information, designed to crack down on Medicare fraud, after controversial legislation sailed through Parliament with support from the...

Medicare data bill gets the nod

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Controversial legislation greatly expanding the scope of Medicare data-matching is set to sail through Parliament after Labor offered its full support for the bill. The Health Legislation Amendment (Data-matching)...

Health data share plan is too broad

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s proposed Medicare data-matching scheme is too broad and would bring with it a range of privacy risks, according to the NSW Council for Civil Liberties. The...