Telstra to build and run national cancer screening register
Telstra has secured a new federal government contract to build and run the Australian National Cancer Screening Register.
The telco’s health division was selected by the commonwealth health department to deliver and operate the register.
Cynthia Whelan, group executive of international and new businesses at Telstra, on Thursday said the register would be a single database with one record for each patient.
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“Australians will be able to access their records online and, with patient consent, general practitioners and medical specialists will have access to patient data and records from any state or territory from their clinical desktops,” Whelan said.
The register’s team will work alongside health providers and Australian, state and territory governments and registers.
“Each of these groups will be critical partners as we transition to the national register,” Whelan said.
“Health providers will help ensure the new systems will work for them and their patients, while the managers of the existing registers will bring considerable expertise and experience to the partnership.”
The program will be overseen by health professionals and will be led within Telstra Health by Prof Ruth Salom.
Salom is a pathologist and health executive who was the inaugural executive director of the Single State Pathology Service from 2008 to 2012 in South Australia.