Incase you missed it or want a summary from the December 2022 "Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report"

Incase you missed it or want a summary from the December 2022 "Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report"

Full report: https://lnkd.in/gs7tV67A

Technology relevant extract - "Vision" Point 3. data and digital technology are better used to inform value-based care, safely share critical patient information to support better diagnosis and healthcare management, empower people to participate in their own health care, and drive insights for planning, resourcing, and continuous quality improvement.

Modernising Primary Care - Recommendations • Modernise My Health Record to significantly increase the health information available to individuals and their health care professionals, including by requiring ‘sharing by default’ for private and public practitioners and services, and make it easier for people and their health care teams to use at the point of care.

• Better connect health data across all parts of the health system, underpinned by robust national governance and legislative frameworks, regulation of clinical software and improved technology.

• Invest in better health data for research and evaluation of models of care and to support health system planning. This includes ensuring patients can give informed consent and withdraw it, and ensuring sensitive health information is protected from breach or misuse.

• Provide an uplift in primary care IT infrastructure, and education and support to primary care practices including comparative feedback on their practice, so that they can maximise the benefits of data and digital reforms, mitigate risks and undertake continuous quality improvement.

• Make it easier for all Australians to access, manage, understand and share their own health information and find the right care to keep them healthy for longer through strengthened digital health literacy and navigation.

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