It Has Taken Me Many Reads To Figure Out Just What A Fiasco This News Conveys. It Is Just Amazing.

The following appeared today. Leading e-health sites to undergo $52m record transition by: Karen Dearne From: The Australian June 26, 2012 12:00AM THE Gillard government will spend $52 million transitioning work done at three lead sites to the new personally controlled e-health record system over the next six months. Three former GP divisions (now rebadged as Medicare Locals) -- in Brisbane North, Hunter Valley, NSW and in Melbourne East -- each received $5 million in mid-2010 to implement software supporting the PCEHR system and to trial the use of records by doctors and patients. ..... A Health Department spokeswoman said the National E-Health Transition Authority had been given $51.8m in order to "support transition of the lead e-health sites to the PCEHR infrastructure over the next six months". "This transition is occurring progressively until December," she said. A further $33.4m had been paid to NEHTA as the commonwealth's half-share of the body's...

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