I Really Hope This Desire For Use Of Our Medicare Databases Is Well Intentioned And Not Just Selfish Rent Seeking!

This appeared last week:Mar 20 2018 at 1:34 PM ANZ's Maile Carnegie says Medicare data could build new e-health industryMaile Carnegie, head of digital at ANZ Banking Group, says health data could be used to create new companies. by James Eyers Medicare provides one of the best-organised and comprehensive sets of healthcare data in the world, providing Australia with a strategic advantage to create a new niche for the local technology industry while improving health outcomes for millions of people, said Maile Carnegie, the head of digital banking at ANZ.In a session at the ASIC Annual Forum on how data can improve company decisions and grow the economy, Ms Carnegie, the former boss of Google in Australia, said if the government were to open up healthcare data to outside developers, advancements in artificial intelligence and genomics technology could "drive dramatically better health outcomes for the population and wonderful industries for the country and companies who can get... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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