This appeared last week:Doctors forgo $23,000 and opt-out of uploading patient data to MyHealth recordSeptember 14, 20167:13pmSue Dunlevy News Corp Australia NetworkDOCTORS are so opposed to the troubled $1 billion taxpayer funded e-health record they are refusing a $23,000 incentive payment to upload patient information into the system.From May doctors had to upload 0.5 per cent of their patients’ records to the new system to qualify for a $23,000 practice incentive payment as the government struggles to get doctors to use it.The AMA has revealed 30 per cent of GPs will miss out on the payments because they have refused to do this.Without these records outlining a patient’s health condition these records are virtually useless and it means even though taxpayers have spent $1 billion on the record doctors are not using it.Four years after it was launched only one in five Australians has signed up for a MyHealth record and this includes one million Australians enrolled through an...
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