Here is a recent report on last week’s COAG Health Meeting:Sussan Ley moves to monitor painkiller useThe Australian12:00AM October 7, 2016Sean ParnellHealth Minister Sussan Ley will seek to revive plans for a national pharmaceutical drug reporting system in an effort to stop people shopping around for dangerous quantities of painkillers and tranquillisers.At a meeting of the Council of Australian Governments’ health council today, Ms Ley will again raise the need for all jurisdictions to connect to an “electronic recording and reporting of controlled drugs’’ system.A steering committee has been looking at implementation issues, but health groups are concerned by the slow progress since the federal government made the software available in 2012.Ms Ley last night said she wanted the states to take to a December meeting of health officials their “well-developed proposals’’ explaining how the system would be implemented.A framework endorsed by federal, state and territory health...
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from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2e4GOSF
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