National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission Report Recommendations (PDF)
34. To better understand people’s use of health services and health outcomes across different care settings, we recommend that public and private hospital episode data should be collected nationally and linked to MBS and PBS data using a patient’s Medicare card number.
Jesper Johansson articles at Technet
At Michael Costa’s First aid won’t suffice, Dr Rudd
At Webdiary’s E-Health article Jan 2008
At Webdiary’s Smartcard article Feb 2006
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