Following the Commonwealth Department of Health’s proposal in 2018, Queensland Health has introduced QScript—a real-time prescription monitoring system. Since 28 October 2021, all relevant health practitioners are required to have registered and be accessing the system.

This year, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) reported that the highest number of data breaches occurred in healthcare.

QScript is Queensland’s real time prescriptions monitoring system. It captures information about certain medicines called monitored medicines (all schedule 8 medicines and some schedule 4 medicines).

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has shared that over 14 million original and repeat electronic prescriptions have been issued to date.

National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) Certificates will be transitioning from SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) to SHA-2.

The most effective and quick way to clean up your practice’s data is to ensure that results are sent to you electronically.

Pen CS would like to inform users about the new Minimum Technical Requirements for Topbar as part of their security improvement.

QScript is Queensland’s read-only, real-time prescription monitoring system that alerts and notifies health practitioners to review a patient’s monitored medicine prescription history at the point of care.

The Heart Foundation’s popular CVD risk assessment and management plan templates used by GPs and practice nurses during Heart Health Check appointments are now available in Bp Premier, the most popular general practice software in Australia.

Services Australia is upgrading the technology used by practice management software (PMS) to connect to digital health services such as Medicare Online, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Eclipse claiming and the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) in March 2022.