This appeared today.December 21 2016 - 3:42PM Public servants watching what you say on social media about botched My Health Record program Daniel BurdonThe federal health department has taken to monitoring social media for complaints and commentary about the long-delayed roll-out of the national My Health Record program. The federal health department is watching what you say about the My Health Record program on social media. First launched by the then-Labor government in 2012, the electronic health record system was meant to create a universal online health record for every Australian, to help coordinate patient care between GPs, specialists and hospital staff. But four years after it was introduced, the scheme's national roll-out has been slowed by a lack of public take-up and health practitioners not getting involved as a result, as the cost of the scheme has ballooned to more than $1 billion. While the current government ordered a review which made several...
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