Senate Estimates - Community Affairs Committee - ADHA Testimony - February 20, 2019

The session ran for about 1 hour from 2:30pm to 3:30pmThose there for the ADHA were  Mr Kelsey, Ms Edwards, Ms McMahon and  Mr O ’Connor.Begin Transcript -----Senator WATT: All right. I'll leave it at that. Should we get on to My Health Record? Senator GRIFF: There are a couple of things I'd like to check off. I just want to first clarify: I understand practices have been provided with an incentive of up to $12,000 per quar ter or $50,000 a year to sign patients up to My Health Record. Is that correct, not correct? Ms Edwards : Senator, take a step back. I think what you're referring is we have an incentive. We call it the PIP, which is payments to practices to encourage and reward them for becoming more technology lit erate. That has included over the years being ready to connect with My Health Record. There's a number of various criteria that practices have to meet in order to be eligible for the incentive. I think that's what you're talking about. Senator GRIFF: To be ready... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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