Accenture is geared up to steer Australia towards a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) system.

In this regard, Health Minister, Nicola Roxon has crafted a consortium, pioneered by Accenture, with intent of offering patients direct participation, enabling them to store crucial data in a health record, administer provider’s right of entry and link medical records all over Australia.

Accenture, with a first-class track record in the deliverance of national electronic health record for Singapore earlier this year, was selected to be the National Infrastructure Partner for the expansion of the PCEHR system. The project will witness designing and development of the physical scheme for registration and tracking e-health accounts.

The e-health project will map the entire Australia-based health facilities and will bless patients with a unique method for monitoring their care. Though the concept of PCEHR was unveiled last year by Australia’s Department of Health and Aging, the project has spanned over a $466.7 million investment with more than two years to structure the system.

If the project witnessed the glimmer of the moment, it will certainly help clinicians make extra clued-up resolutions with admittance to imperative medical information, including health synopsis, which will certainly chop-down the possibilities of medication glitches along with cost and time allied to the surplus trails and salvaging distinct data.

Citizens, clinicians and health officials can expect the PCEHR system active by July 2012.