There was good news for healthcare's anti-fax advocates this week with the announcement that the Department of Health would finally move to allow GPs to send referrals to the My Aged Care system through their clinical software.

It never made much sense to have phone, fax and webform referrals but not a more suitable route, considering the cost of equipping the My Aged Care contact centre to receive secure messages from any of the four or five vendors on the market wouldn't have been high.