Almost 40 per cent of Australian general practices will be unable to comply with the new digital health practice incentive payment (ePIP) requirements, an AMA survey shows.
A further 36 per cent were unsure if they will comply and just 24 per cent considered themselves able, the survey of 658 practices found.
The new ePIP requires practices to upload a shared health summary to the My Health Record (MyHR) system for 0.5 per cent of their standardised whole patient equivalent each quarter and has been the subject of much disquiet from both the AMA and the RACGP.
However, Health Minister Sussan Ley said the current amount of shared health summaries being uploaded is about 6000 per week, which she said indicated that plenty of GPs were now participating in the system.
