Healthcare IT News October 20, 2024
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Health to head to Parliament for MHR sharing law
Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler plans to introduce next month November a piece of legislation that will mandate the default sharing of medical images to My Health Record (MHR).
Earlier in May, Minister Butler floated this requirement, which was one of the recommendations of the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce.
While there is progress in sharing pathology and diagnostic images – about a third of medical imaging reports are now being uploaded to MHR – this is “still too low and too slow.”
“The ‘sharing by default’ legislation will be introduced to Parliament next month…...
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