Parliament Publishes a Digest on the Health Identifiers Bill.

The following seems to have been developed before and published on the 24^th February, 2010.

It can be reviewed from this link.

http://www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/bd/2009-10/10bd116.pdf

This is a very useful summary of discussions to the date of release. Well worth a download!

Sadly there does not seem to be any discussion of the risks poor implementation by Medicare and NEHTA poses to the overall direction and the recent revelations regarding the behaviour of Medicare Australia were not of course discussed.

See here for all that.

http://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2010/03/would-you-trust-these-people-to-manage.html

We are having an exciting time indeed!

David.