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The Productivity Commission’s report on the failure of the federal government’s My Health Record portal should concern all Australians not only as taxpayers, but as health care consumers in a rapidly ageing society.
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The Productivity Commission’s report on the failure of the federal government’s My Health Record portal should concern all Australians not only as taxpayers, but as health care consumers in a rapidly ageing society.
Despite the $2 billion invested in what was supposed to be a centralised digital access point for patients’ most important health data, poor interoperability and clunky usability means that just a tiny fraction of the documents uploaded – 2 per cent – are viewed by other clinicians.
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