Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The government agency set up to assist the roll-out of electronic health services in Australia, the National eHealth Transition Authority, has released its much-anticipated strategic plan for progressing the nation's stalled eHealth initiatives.
The NeHTA plan positions the organisation as a long term implementation
authority, extending the role it has so far played in standards
setting. NeHTA was established by Federal, state and territory health
departments and is chaired by businessman David Gonski.
While NeHTA enjoys committed fundng until 2012, its strategic plan
2009-12 clearly sees a longer term role for the body during the long
implementation phase – an evolution of its primary role in setting
standards that created an environment conducive to eHealth adoption.
NeHTA chief executive officer Peter Fleming said the strategic plan
responded to – and reflected – the goals of the Rudd Government’s
national eHealth strategy released last December.
It also reviewed the recommendations of the National Health and
Hospital Reform Commission – including plans to create an Individual
Healthcare Identifier.
NeHTA calls for the urgent delivery of the IHI numbers, which have already raised the protests of privacy advocates.
"NEHTA has considered its future work program based on the National
Strategy and other important work completed this year including the
National Health and Hospital Reform Commission recommendations,"
Fleming said.
"As a result we have produced our Strategic Plan to clearly show our
stakeholders across the health sector the directions we are taking to
drive the take-up and adoption of e-health."
Fleming said the IHI was an "essential foundation" for delivering
eHealth services, and with secure messaging and authentication would
form the backbone of Australia’s eHealth systems.
He said NeHTA had an important role to play in coordinating the
roll-out of eHealth services, with priorities including referrals and
discharge information, pathology and diagnostic imaging, and
medications management.
Though NeHTA would continue its role in increasing the awareness of
eHealth, Fleming also outlined a more formal lead in the "progression"
of eHealth services in Australia.
"This priority reflects that NEHTA has a significant role in leading
the direction of the current and future state of e-health in Australia,
including future initiatives and the impacts on privacy and policy,"
NeHTA said in a statement.
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