HEALTHY patients who go to their doctor simply to get their e-health record set up will not receive a Medicare rebate.
The decision has outraged doctors and comes as the body in charge of the
personally controlled e-health records has pulled out of a
taxpayer-funded roadshow to Malaysia next month to show the system to
Australian surgeons at a conference in Kuala Lumpur because of the
"tight fiscal environment".
The National e-Health Transition Authority, which has a
multi-million-dollar travel and entertainment budget, had announced on
its website it was planning to send four doctors to the Royal
Australasian College of Surgeons conference in the Malaysian capital to
promote the scheme.
NEHTA has a Model Healthcare Community, a mock up of how the e-health
computer system is meant to work, that it planned to take to the
surgeons' conference in Malaysia.
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