The federal Department of Health (DoH) has issued a request for tender for a new ICT system to build a National Cancer Screening Register, which will see the results of cervical and bowel cancer screening communicated through the PCEHR.
The federal government announced in the May budget that it would set up a new register to support a revised national bowel cancer screening program as well as a new national cervical cancer program that will see a primary human papillomavirus (HP) test replace the current Pap test for cervical screening from May 2017.
