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14 April 2025 

Queensland Health audit highlights cybersecurity vulnerabilities

A State entities audit has revealed a significant increase in cybersecurity vulnerabilities at Queensland Health during the year in review,…
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13 December 2024 

The 2024 Australian Digital Health Year in Review: part four

The Australian Digital Health Agency’s work on the modernisation of the My Health Record system and the new HIE, along…
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16 September 2024 

Lyrebird Health working on non-English language transcription for AI medical scribe

Ambient AI medical scribe developer Lyrebird Health is working on a new feature that will allow consultations held in different…
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25 July 2024 

Sneak peek at digital health roadmap shows 2025 deadline for IHI, shortlist of EHR vendors

Data systems currently used across the healthcare system will have until 2025 to fully integrate individual health identifiers (IHI). The…
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18 July 2024 
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Charm achieves a first for oncology with electronic prescribing conformance

The Charm oncology information management system from Magentus has become Australia’s first to provide ePrescribing functionality, allowing cancer care team…
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9 July 2024 

Digital appointments drop slightly in Health NZ’s latest QPR

The number of medical appointments conducted through digital channels decreased slightly in the three months to April, according to Health…
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4 July 2024 

Government policy statement puts digital infrastructure among top five priorities

Ensuring the health system has the digital infrastructure needed to meet current and future demand is among the top five…
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25 June 2024 

Digital health briefing tells health minister that NZ is ‘starting from behind’

New Zealand is not a leader in digital health and suffers from technology ‘black spots’ and ageing IT systems: key…
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2 May 2024 

Stocktake of telehealth in NZ: not yet ready for business as usual

A recent stocktake of telehealth use in New Zealand’s public hospitals shows a mixed-bag of telehealth readiness across the country,…
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22 February 2024 

System interoperability and data exchange key to new National Digital Health Strategy

A strong focus on system interoperability, health information exchange and real-time access to data for consumers and clinicians is a…
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14 February 2024 

WACHS to revamp its virtual care service, WA Health to add PaTCH to state operations centre

The WA Country Health Service (WACHS) has issued a request for information for a new virtual care solution for its…
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14 December 2023 

The 2023 Australian Digital Health Year in Review: part three

All eyes were on MedInfo as the second half of the year kicked off, but making big news in early…
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14 April 2023 

RFDS Victoria looks for integrated EHR for My Flying Doctor primary care platform

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Victoria is on the market for an integrated electronic health record (EHR) as part…
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13 February 2023 

Tasmania on the market for statewide EMR, ambulance PCR

The Tasmanian Department of Health has issued a request for proposals for a statewide electronic medical record (EMR) and an…
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13 December 2022 

The 2022 Australian eHealth year in review: part one

Year three of the COVID-19 pandemic was still a dominant theme in the 2022 eHealth year in Australia, but as…
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17 May 2022 

Digitally connected stroke-capable road ambulances to bolster mobile stroke care

Several sites around Australia are about to trial a new initiative to improve communication between paramedics and hospital-based neurological teams…
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17 January 2022 

Govt reverses course on telehealth limits, taps Healthdirect for Covid triage

The Australian government has agreed to restore access to MBS-funded telehealth using the same arrangements introduced early in the Covid-19…
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8 December 2021 

Loddon Mallee rolls out regional virtual home monitoring across 16 health services

Loddon Mallee Health Network has rolled out a virtual home monitoring solution for low- and medium-risk COVID-19+ patients across 16…
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15 July 2021 

Wider adoption of automatic dispensing and eMeds management expected: report

National adoption of electronic medications management systems allied to automatic dispensing cabinet technology is likely in the near future in…
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4 March 2021 

SCHN live with Cartula clinician-initiated comms app integrated into Cerner EMR

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) is now live with a new solution integrated into its Cerner electronic medical record (EMR)…
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1 March 2021 

Royal Commission calls for universal adoption of My Health Record by aged care

Aged care providers should be required to use a digital care management system and the My Health Record system by…
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15 December 2020 

The 2020 Australian eHealth year in review: part one

Details about the novel coronavirus cluster in Wuhan began to emerge as the new year began, but that the cluster…
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28 July 2020 

Vitro Software to add remote patient management and telehealth to DMR

Vitro Software has teamed up with fellow Irish firm myPatientSpace to offer Australian and New Zealand users of its digital…
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24 June 2020 

Telehealth the silver lining in pandemic for consumers: Grattan Institute

Telehealth should become a permanent feature of healthcare in Australia, with new items for GP and secondary consultations added to…
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2 June 2020 

Virtual paediatric diabetes clinics, virtual Pilates classes for rehab in South Island

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rapid growth in the use of telehealth, with clinicians in New Zealand's South Island…
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2 June 2020 

National roll-out of digital diabetes education by SMS or email

The National Association of Diabetes Centres (NADC) has partnered with Western Sydney Diabetes and patient education specialists Healthily to enable…
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18 May 2020 
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Opinion: telehealth is not quite the colt from old Regret but it sure as hell has got away

Telehealth has bolted away as fast as the colt from old Regret as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The…
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10 May 2020 

International health IT week in review: May 10

Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending May 10: Telehealth take-up, Canada invests in virtual…
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21 April 2020 

COVID-19 resources: general practices

Intrahealth Virtual Care Practice management software vendor Intrahealth has added a fully integrated telemedicine module into its system as part…
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21 April 2020 

COVID-19 resources: hospitals and health services

SARS CoV-2 testing InterSystems is offering enhanced configurations in its TrakCare Lab Enterprise solution to support a variety of SARS…
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