Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of Australian and New Zealand health IT and eHealth news for the week ending August 6:
More to do on e-med management in aged care
Australian Ageing Agenda ~ Rohan Elliott ~ 03/08/2016
The full benefits of electronic medication management systems in aged care are currently not available in Australia largely due to the lack of integration with electronic prescribing.
National health statistics on rural health not fit for purpose, say researchers
NZ Doctor ~ Liane Topham-Kindley ~ 05/08/2016
National health statistics on rural health are not fit for purpose with revelations several hundred thousand people accessing health services are wrongly classified as “rural” or “urban”, researchers say.
