Applications Now Open For Second Wave e-Health Projects
Hundreds of thousands more Australians will join the e-health revolution as a result of up to $55 million from the Australian Government now available for the next round of innovative e-health projects across the nation.
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24 November 2010
Hundreds of thousands more Australians will join the e-health revolution as a result of up to $55 million from the Gillard Government now available for the next round of innovative e-health projects across the nation.
Organisations are invited to apply to be one of the country’s lead sites to help introduce personally controlled e-health records.
“Currently 190,000 hospital admissions a year are caused by medication errors, and eight per cent of these are caused by inadequate patient information,” the Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, explained.
“E-health can improve patient care and save time for patients and doctors by reducing extra or repeat tests that don’t need to be done.”
“Of course, patients will ultimately control what goes into their health record and who can access their information.”
Applications are welcome from a variety of patient settings including from Divisions of General Practice, professional organisations, non government organisations, the private sector and others involved in the care of Australian patients.
The new e-health sites will join the first three selected sites in Brisbane, the Hunter Valley and Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, which are at the cutting edge of enabling Australians to use electronic health records. These sites—covering over seven per cent of the population—will be among the first to send hospital discharge summaries electronically to GPs and referrals using national specifications.
These sites will help lead the way for future planning of a secure, reliable e-health system, improving technology and identifying what works well and what could work better.
Organisations wishing to apply to be one of the next wave leading implementation sites of our nation’s e-health reforms should visit www.health.gov.au/tenders from 4.00 pm today. Applications will close on 23 December 2010 and the new sites will be selected in the new year.
For all media inquiries, please contact the Minister's Office on 0409 945 476
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