The lone technology supplier for the national health record system “captured” the government agency responsible for it in an arrangement that is taking years to unpick but could be...
Accenture’s lucrative My Health Record deal will be market tested for the first time in more than a decade next year, with the Australian Digital Health Agency planning to...
New laws that will force health providers to upload pathology and diagnostic imaging to My Health Record by default or forgo Medicare payments will be introduced to Parliament next...
My Health Record will abandon its outdated PDF format in favour of a new open-source health data sharing standard under a “foundational” project slated to cost upwards of $45...
Almost one in three doctors aren’t using a national patient record database despite more than a decade and $2 billion of development, leading to fresh calls this week for...
Parliament’s powerful audit committee will probe how agencies manage contracts after damning audits – including investigations of two Accenture technology projects – revealed serious capability and probity gaps. The...
National digital health systems, including the country’s My Health Record, could be insourced from as early as next year as part of government-wide push to unseat consultants and contractors...
Accenture was awarded two closed tenders worth hundreds of millions of dollars for work on My Health Record while it was locked in a three year dispute with the...
The process behind the awarding of lucrative contracts worth nearly $750 million to Accenture for the operation of My Health Record was “deficient” and plagued by poor planning and...
Hospitals could save up to $5.4 billion a year by making better use of electronic medical records, including the My Health Record if the government fixes “important gaps”, according...