Following lacklustre take-up of its e-health records scheme, the federal government last year introduced legislation to make the program opt-out by default to boost adoption rates.
But according to CIOs within Australia's healthcare sector, much more needs to be done to create a holistic national e-health strategy.
The finalists in this year's healthcare category of the iTnews Benchmark Awards discussed the problems facing the current approach and shared their insights into how Australia's health system can become more reliable and efficient.
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