Sector: Health

NSW Minister for Health John Della Bosca recently announced NSW Health’s decision to implement 137 of the 139 recommendations made by Peter Garling SC, in its Caring Together: The Health Action Plan for NSW.

In his report, Special Commissioner Garling prioritised the establishment of a Bureau of Health Information and the implementation of up-to-date information technology reforms, which are to be “considerably accelerated” and completed by 2013.

At the end of last month, Minister for Health John Della Bosca announced the decision to establish the independent bureau.

The Australian Federal Government has created a new agency, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), which will be a single national registration and accreditation system to “improve the quality and safety of Australia’s health services through a modernized national regulatory system for health professionals”.

ARPHA is the first outcome of a Council of Australian Government's initiative to coordinate registration and accreditation of professionals...

The Department of Health and Ageing has issued a Request for Tender (RFT) for the Development and support of PharmCIS – a technology solution to support the listing of drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefit Schedule (PBS).

PharmCIS is key deliverable in the Department’s PharmBiz project, which seeks to deliver improved business systems to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Division. It has three divisions:...

Electronic health, national security and the pool of savings generated by the Gershon Review form the key ICT foci of the 2010-11 Federal Budget, unveiled by Wayne Swan last week...