Australia to build personal e-health system

Bob Mitchell | | Health Exec | Precision Medicine

Australia’s Department of Health and Aging will get assistance in the design and implementation of the country’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system from Accenture. The e-health system will span all Australia-based health systems and give patients a single record for managing their care.

The PCEHR, which was announced by Australia’s Department of Health and Aging last year, invested $466.7 million over two years to establish the system, which is available by registration.

The system will give patients direct involvement, allowing them to store information in a health record, manage provider access and connect medical records across Australia. Clinicians will be able to make more informed decisions with access to medical data, such as health summaries, resulting in reductions in medication errors and the time and cost associated with redundant testing and retrieving disparate information.

Clinicians, citizens and health administrators will be able to register and begin using the PCEHR system in July 2012.
 

Bob Mitchell

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