This story has been updated. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists would like to note that the decision support app cited in the MBS Review Taskforce report – an app called Imaging CDRs – was designed as an educational tool to support junior doctors. 

GPs will be forced to use decision-support software before ordering MBS-funded imaging under the latest proposal from the MBS Review Taskforce to curb over-testing.

The task force’s diagnostic medicine committee says the extra step for doctors should be applied to “selected” imaging MBS items and rolled out within two years.

The decision-support software would become a “piece of critical health infrastructure” that could integrate with existing IT systems, it said.