> The Medicare office is/has rolling out a sideshow promoting Medicare EFPOS > swipe card claims at GP divisions. I attended one recently at Whitehorse > WDGP(VIC). The AMA was planning to doing the same! The AMA cancelled the one > in Melbourne 'claiming lack of interest'- I personally know of many people > who registered to go to the AMA event so I assume the AMA is backing off > support for this due to the numbers of its members very unhappy with this.
Yeah, Medicare cancelled the one that was scheduled for my Division this week. No one wanted to attend the discussion after the Easter period for some reason - perhaps there was an unprecedented number of patients wanting to be seen following the long weekend and the doctors and practice staff were all busy providing health care - fancy that! > 6- Only CBA has agreed to provide the service at the .23 cents per > transaction meaning that the estimated 50 million paid to the banks per year > may increase significantly! And NAB as of 10/4. http://www.nab.com.au/About_Us/0,,86175,00.html "NAB expects to begin offering the service later in 2007." For some reason it sounds less convincing than "the second half of 2007". > Almost all the practices expressed frustration that the new system: > 1-Is not integrated with out clinic/admin software systems Fair enough, but I think this is the correct approach initially. I'm actually pleased to see a large, potentially disruptive deployment being phased in in manageable chunks. I'd like to see other eHealth project managers running around with my taxes adopt similar approaches. > I hope this is of use to you. Thanks James, it certainly is. All the best, Simon _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
