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Author: November 14, 2003 |
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Date Posted: Friday, November 14, 11:08:40am Minister wants health smartcards November 14, 2003 THE health system would be in "systemic paralysis" if a smartcard carrying an individual's medical history was not available within five years, Health Minister Tony Abbott said. Speaking at a a public policy conference in Melbourne, Mr Abbott said more needed to be done to stop the 18,000 preventable deaths in hospitals each year. "If ambulance officers or emergency department doctors could use patients' Medicare cards or some other widely-available smartcard to access their medical records and health information, much unnecessary testing and counter productive treatment could be avoided," he told the 2003 Economic and Social Outlook Conference. "The result could be significant cost savings, substantially better health care and hundreds of people alive who would otherwise would be dead." Mr Abbott said up to 3,600 of preventable deaths were because doctors did not have enough information. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |