Jon
HESA rejected these suggestions stating the technology was not
sufficiently advanced and pointed out that card readers are used in
Austria & South America therefore we are lagging behind !!
Wal
On 23/01/2006, at 9:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would iris identification, voiceprint identification or fingerprint
identification get over all these obstacles?
jon patrick
Quoting Wal Tracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Stephen
Have a look at
http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/providers/online_initiatives/
electronic_referrals.htm
This details the requirements for electronic referrals, pathology &
radiology requests. All require an individual certificate
GP may require to use his individual certificate smart card in any of
the following locations
You would need to cart your card or USB key with you in the following
possible situations-
Consulting room
Treatment room - if it has a workstation
Branch practice
Nursing home
Hospital
Home visit
Residence - to do all the paperwork instead of watching TV or
drinking beer
Multiple practices in the case of floating locum
This creates potential for mislaid cards
Card may also be lost , stolen or left at home and if you do not have
access to your card then you cease to communicate electronically
I phoned HESA to ask about the lost card scenario and they said that
in this case they would send one by courier. I pointed out that this
may still take 2 days for Darwin or worse still for remote areas
They then muttered about letting Divisions distribute cards as they
now do for location certificates. This still does not deal with the
lost card in remote areas.
Our practice would need a card reader in 5 consulting rooms and 2
treatment rooms as well as a card reader for each of the 6 doctors
for use at home - their web site said they will only supply one card
reader per doctor
I predict that there will be considerable resistance to the use of
card readers by GPs and even greater resistance from specialists.
The proposed changes to level 1 PIP payments for IT require GPs to
be capable of sending and receiving encrypted messages
Surely we can come up with some better technology.
Could we not have a location certificate which authenticates the
practice and incorporate a log on PIN for doctors
I would rather memorize a 25 digit alphanumeric PIN than use their
card readers.
HESA still does not have a Mac compatible card reader & I have
suggested to them that Mac users should take legal action in view of
the new PIP requirements claiming professional & financial
disadvantage.
Wal
On 23/01/2006, at 10:03 AM, Andrew N. Shrosbree wrote:
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Jon Patrick
Chair of Language Technology
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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