House debates Questions without Notice

Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records

Thursday, 5 December 2013 House of Representatives

Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Health

2:41 pm

The system was going live and this was a great time for our country. A billion dollars was spent by the previous government, and 10,000 Australians out of 23 million have a record for which a doctor has uploaded a summary of their health information. Do the maths for a second, and it works out to $100,000 per patient.

Government members interjecting—

There is shock on this side, but by that side's standard it is not a bad outcome, I suspect.

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