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Health
Jacob Shteyman

Fax machine to AI: urgent call to modernise health care

The health care sector is being urged to invest in digital technology to help modernise services. (Paul Miller/AAP PHOTOS)

Australians should get used to lower-quality health and aged-care services unless the system is modernised to rein in "unsustainable" cost growth, health employers warn.

With fax machines and paper filing still commonplace in Australia's archaic health system, the Business Council of Australia said the sector needed to embrace technology and lift productivity. 

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