Jeremy Knibbs

Experts in health data and privacy argue that consent in healthcare is broken, which should mean privacy is broken too. Welcome to Alice in Health Data Privacy Land.

The productivity gains you’d get from migrating the management of GPs from the Commonwealth to the states goes way beyond the money the country could save into a transformation of clinician efficacy and job satisfaction, and, most importantly, patient outcomes.

At Tuesday’s PHN Data and Digital Showcase in Sydney it became clear that DoHDA and the AIHW want to partner with PHNs to develop cohesive primary care data standards and a minimum dataset resource for the country.

eRx Script Exchange, Fred IT and Telstra Health are in trouble again for acting like a monopoly. But hey, they’re a monopoly.

Letting the single-indication non-Medicare telehealth platforms develop standards and regulation for GP telehealth is an obviously flawed idea.

Part 2 of our 8 things shaping the future of general practice listicle looks at tax, scope of practice, education and training and AI.

What might the new private equity owners of Healthlink think and do about the trajectory of their significant secure messaging business in Australia and New Zealand?

Progress on interoperability progress is splitting into two streams: small innovative web-based local projects making surprising progress, and mega-infrastructure projects, which are bold but look worryingly expensive and complex.

What data does DoHAC have on GP practices that the practices don’t have themselves, in determining whether they will take up the new BB offer or not?

Less foot traffic from bulk billing and more telehealth equals less on-site pathology volumes. Now, some pathology companies want a rent adjustment.