House debates

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Questions without Notice

Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records

2:41 pm

Photo of Peter DuttonPeter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

The system was going live and this was a great time for our country. A billion dollars was spent by the previous government, and 10,000 Australians out of 23 million have a record for which a doctor has uploaded a summary of their health information. Do the maths for a second, and it works out to $100,000 per patient.

Government members interjecting

There is shock on this side, but by that side's standard it is not a bad outcome, I suspect.

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