According to here: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/budget/publishing.nsf/content/budget2016-factsheet12.htm The Health Department has been giving MBS/PBS data away for free. Now it has decided to to charge
<quote> Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data – efficiencies This measure will enable the Department of Health to, for the first time, charge for supplying external clients with customised Medicare Benefits Schedule, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and other health data. It will also look at the potential to extend similar cost recovery arrangements to other Department of Health work. <end quote> As an aside, they'll happily claim $200,000 as a benefit when selling MBS/PBS data but when it comes to recouping the cost of the My Health record, estimated to be over $2billion, not a word. It's been live since 2012. And there isn't even a benefit predicted for the next five years. Makes you wonder. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia email: [email protected] web: www.drbrd.com web: www.problemsfirst.com Blog: www.problemsfirst.com/blog _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
