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TissuPath reports hack of scanned referrals revealed patient and provider data

21 September 2023

Melbourne-based specialist pathology provider TissuPath has reported a cyber incident that has potentially revealed patient and provider data from nine years’ worth of scanned referrals for suspected cancer patients. The hack occurred on August 24 and was caused by an attack on one of the clinic’s third-party suppliers through remote access. “Exposed data includes scanned […]

Northern Imaging Victoria to open with radiology IT system using x-ray AI analysis

21 September 2023

The new Northern Imaging Victoria (NIV) medical imaging service will open next month with an entirely new radiology IT set-up, including a new radiology information system (RIS) from Kestral and Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging 8.2 platform picture archiving and communication system (PACS). NIV is a new public service at Northern Health that is bringing medical imaging […]

HCF’s QR code claiming system rolls out nationwide on Trinity terminals

20 September 2023

Health insurer HCF is rolling out its new QR code-based digital membership card nationwide following a successful trial of the service, which allows members to make on-the-spot claims for extras with allied health providers using HICAPS’ new Trinity terminals. The contactless QR code claiming solution is a joint initiative developed between HCF and National Australia […]

GE HealthCare to implement statewide cardiovascular system for Queensland Health

20 September 2023

Medtech giant GE HealthCare has won a contract with Queensland Health to roll out a statewide cardiovascular information system in 11 hospital and health services. The new platform, using GE’s Centricity Cardio Enterprise (CCE) solution, will replace the existing cardiac catheter laboratory and echocardiography image storage and clinical information systems in 11 cath labs and […]

VVED diverting patients; eHealth Qld equipping satellite hospitals with ieMR

19 September 2023

The Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED) operated by Northern Health has provided more than 155,000 video consultations to patients since it launched in October 2020. Victorian Minister for Ambulance Services Gabrielle Williams said that in July alone, over 3000 patients were connected to VVED by a paramedic, with 77 per cent of these patients not […]

HPA partners with Harris Data Integrity for duplicate record reconciliation

19 September 2023

Hospital Products Australia has been appointed as the exclusive distributor for Harris Data Integrity Solutions’ (HDI) patient record de-duplication solutions in Australia. HDI is part of the Harris Healthcare Solutions division of Harris Computer, which also owns brands such as EMR vendor Altera Health, ICU specialist iMDsoft and maternity specialist K2 Medical Systems. HDI was […]

InfoMedix partners with TIMG for end-to-end document and data management solution

18 September 2023

Digital healthcare solutions provider InfoMedix has partnered with The Information Management Group (TIMG), a document and data management specialist, to offer an end-to-end solution to the healthcare sector. The partnership will enable healthcare organisations to combine InfoMedix cloud-based digital patient chart (DPC) and Coding Manager solutions and TIMG’s document handling, tracking and management capabilities. The […]

Streamliners converts to charitable trust to secure future of HealthPathways

18 September 2023

The organisation behind the HealthPathways online guidance and referral system used in primary care in New Zealand, Australia and the UK has transferred its corporate structure over to a charitable trust to ensure its future as a community venture. Kiwi technical publishing firm Streamliners first developed HealthPathways with the Canterbury District Health Board in 2008 […]

Spark Health snaps up Macaskill-Smith

18 September 2023

Spark’s health IT services and consulting arm Spark Health has appointed former Pinnacle Midlands Health Network CEO John Macaskill-Smith as its new head. Mr Macaskill-Smith was most recently chief network office with telehealth firm Tend Health, but is best known for his long-term roles at Pinnacle in Hamilton, which included work on introducing health care […]

International health IT week in review: September 17

17 September 2023

Ireland’s digital health strategy, healthcare CIOs and IT spend, $16b Oracle Cerner EHR, Babylon Health’s AI, aged care remote monitoring, Intermountain flips to Epic, how Meditech plans to integrate Google’s generative AI into its EHR Digital health strategy ‘nearing completion’ as new survey shows public’s openness to sharing personal data Irish Medical Times ~ Michael […]

Blog: Seven-day delay’s time is probably up

15 September 2023

The big news of the week was the announcement by the Department of Health and Aged Care of a new consultation on two measures to improve health information sharing in Australia, one covering the removal of the seven-day delay on posting test reports to the My Health Record and the other on mandating uploading results […]

Telehealth carts roll out across WA aged care facilities

14 September 2023

Telehealth equipment vendor Visionflex is rolling out its telehealth carts to 75 residential aged care facilities in Western Australia over the next four months in a $1.1 million deal with the WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA). The telehealth carts are equipped with Visionflex’s Vision video call platform and bluetooth-enabled devices including pulse oximeter, blood pressure […]

ACTMed study to generate overnight patient at risk lists using My Health Record

13 September 2023

42 general practices in the Brisbane South PHN catchment will be recruited for what is understood to be the first Australian trial to develop and test an integrated and proactive medicines safety service for primary care using digital technologies. The ACTMed study will use the University of Melbourne’s GRHANITE data transfer and linkage tool and […]

St John of God Midland goes with the flow to roll out digital patient journey boards

12 September 2023

St John of God Midland Public and Private hospitals in Perth have rolled out modules in Telstra Health’s Kyra Flow platform, including electronic journey boards to provide staff with real-time patient journey updates from admission to discharge, and bed management dashboards within its operational command centre. St John of God Midland has used Telstra Health’s […]

Digital pathway to deliver Nourish Baby app to birthing parents

12 September 2023

Healthcare software providers Harris Maternity and Personify Care have partnered to develop a mobile app to deliver the accredited Nourish Baby antenatal education to birthing parents. The app is powered by Personify Care’s digital pathway technology and can also be integrated with existing Personify Care maternity pathways so consumers have one experience for both content […]

End of the seven-day delay as My Health Record upload ‘by default’ consultation kicks off

11 September 2023

The seven-day delay between a pathology or diagnostic imaging report being uploaded to My Health Record and the patient being able to see it is likely to be removed following a public consultation launched last week on improving health information sharing through the system. The consultation will also cover a change recommended by the Strengthening […]

Northern Hospital ready for go-live with Oracle Cerner EMR

11 September 2023

The 400-bed Northern Hospital at Epping in north Melbourne will go live with its new electronic medical record on Tuesday following a successful roll-out at Broadmeadows Hospital and Bundoora Centre last week. Northern Health first announced plans to implement the full Cerner stack, now known as Oracle Health, in 2020 with a view to a […]

Hira flies high with connector plane for access to APIs

11 September 2023

The New Zealand’s Hira health information program is introducing new capabilities as it aims for the completion of its first tranche of work, including the development of a “connector plane” that will provide a single, secure point of access to the system’s application programming interfaces (APIs). One of those APIs is the National Health Index […]

International health IT week in review: September 10

10 September 2023

AI imaging models for oncology and pathology, YouTube’s new tools for healthcare content writers, Register with a GP Surgery service, Babylon sells UK assets minus GP at Hand, experts forecast Qakbot resurgence, UK flu and Covid-19 vax system dumped, US EMR vendors “info sharing-ready” Microsoft collab to build world’s largest pathology, oncology imaging AI Health […]

Blog: FHIR meets accelerant in Sparked program

8 September 2023

Fun times for the pun-inclined returned this week when we belatedly spotted a press release on LinkedIn about Sparked, a new FHIR accelerator launched in Brisbane a fortnight ago that has received some much-needed funding from the feds to turbocharge the development of a core set of FHIR standards specifically for the Australian healthcare system […]

HL7 Australia sparks up FHIR accelerator program

7 September 2023

HL7 Australia has officially launched Sparked, a new FHIR accelerator program that aims to deliver a core set of FHIR standards for use in Australian healthcare settings over the next two years. Sparked is being led by the CSIRO’s Australian eHealth Research Centre and will play a leading role in the development of the FHIR […]

Aged care B2G developer portal readies for software vendors

7 September 2023

The Department of Health and Aged Care is shortly to go live with its new business to government (B2G) developer portal, which is aimed at streamlining connections for aged care software vendors with DoHAC systems. The portal will provide a vehicle of software developers to test their connections with the department using public APIs. According […]

RACGP exploring integrating Healthy Habits app with practice software

6 September 2023

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is exploring options to integrate its new Healthy Habits patient app and clinician dashboard with practice management software. Healthy Habits is a free digital tool developed by the RACGP with funding from the federal Department of Health and Aged Care that uses behavioural change techniques to encourage patients […]

Healthily developing GoShare Voice using conversational AI

6 September 2023

Patient education platform Healthily has developed a new version of its digital health content solution GoShare that uses conversational AI to deliver information to patients by scripted phone calls. The new GoShare Voice technology is being developed in association with Western Sydney Local Health District initially for its long COVID model of care, but will […]

Vic DHS chief digital officer Neville Board heads home

5 September 2023

The Victorian Department of Health’s chief digital health officer Neville Board has resigned after five and half years, having overseen the development of the state’s five-year digital health roadmap, published in 2021. Mr Board was also involved in the somewhat controversial policy that will see easier exchange of clinical information between health services through a […]

SCHN opens digital front door for vax clinic with Consultmed and HotHealth

4 September 2023

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) has opened influenza vaccination clinics assisted by integrated technology from electronic referral vendor Consultmed and digital front door platform HotHealth. The clinics, at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, are open to children aged six months and above, young people, and family members aged up to […]

Study validates text-mediated recall system for Heart Health Checks

4 September 2023

A study of general practices that sent SMS invitations linked to digital information to eligible patients for Heart Health Checks saw a 14-fold increase in billings for the MBS-funded assessments. The study used the GoShare Plus SMS recall feature embedded in PenCS’ Clinical Audit Tool (CAT4), which is integrated with GP desktop software, to send […]

International health IT week in review: September 3

3 September 2023

Europe’s first AI regulatory agency, fines for information blocking, national provider directory for the US, US VA and Oracle Cerner renegotiate EHR contract, virtual multidisciplinary rounds, declines in hospital patient experience scores Spain to launch Europe’s first AI regulatory agency Healthcare Info Security ~ Akshaya Asokan ~ 25/08/2023 Spain is set to launch Europe’s first-ever […]

Blog: Impressed with DMO and DAX? Wait till you see DAX Express

1 September 2023

In 2019, representatives from voice recognition software firm Nuance approached Queensland’s Mackay Base Hospital with a proposition. Nuance was offering 25 free licences to its new Dragon Medical One (DMO) product, which can integrate with the Cerner ieMR used in Queensland, to test it out to speed up clinical documentation. Dragon voice recognition software has […]

How to train your Dragon: Mackay leads the way in voice to text

31 August 2023

Some of the largest hospitals in Queensland are planning to roll out Nuance’s Dragon Medical One (DMO) voice recognition system following a widely applauded pilot at Mackay Hospital and Health Service (HHS) in 2021, which saw the turnaround time for GP and specialist letters in the outpatient department reduced from 30-40 days to one day […]

Intergovernmental agreement commits to use of PCA

31 August 2023

The recently signed intergovernmental agreement on national digital health has committed to the funding and use of Provider Connect Australia (PCA), the new service that will allow healthcare organisations to update their information once and publish it out to numerous business partners. PCA has been developed by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) as part […]

Operation Duck Hunt finally shoots down the Qakbot

30 August 2023

The notorious Qakbot malware, also known as Qbot and understood to be responsible for infesting Royal Melbourne Hospital’s systems in 2016, has been dismantled, US authorities say. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and its Justice Department jointly announced that a multinational operation to disrupt and dismantle the botnet has managed to do so. In […]

Austin Health trials CSIRO-built Docker tools to analyse outpatient waiting lists

29 August 2023

Melbourne’s Austin Health has conducted a feasibility study of two applications developed by the CSIRO’s Australian eHealth Research Centre to assist with waitlist management in outpatients clinics. The algorithms, which are transferable to other health jurisdictions to manage specialist clinic waitlist demand and improve performance, include a next available appointment (NAA) tool to support improved […]

CareRight and Genea Fertility build integrated solution for day hospitals

29 August 2023

Healthcare software developer Clintel Systems has worked with fertility treatment provider Genea to build and implement a fully integrated quoting, billing and claiming solution for Genea’s day surgeries. The CareRight solution also includes clinical coding and statutory reporting capabilities, as well as a number of specialist integrations to provide a full day surgery management solution. […]

interRAI tops assessment review as aged care national minimum data set released

28 August 2023

Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) systems developed by international aged care research network interRAI for home and residential aged care have topped a list of tools in a University of Queensland evaluation, far outweighing Australia’s 75+ health assessment. The evaluation was commissioned by the Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council (ACIITC) as part of its work […]

Hills Health Solutions to continue trading as creditors come to agreement

28 August 2023

ASX-listed Hills Ltd will continue to trade following an agreement struck by its creditors, following the company’s entry into voluntary administration in June. Hills’ health solutions division includes nurse call and patient entertainment system (PES) technology used by a large number of hospitals and aged care facilities in Australia and New Zealand, including a 30,000-bed […]

International health IT week in review: August 27

27 August 2023

Epic and Microsoft working on ambient clinical documentation technology, AI-driven assessment technology for COPD, Epic’s third-party vendor site to replace Epic Orchard, Babylon to liquidate in US, primary to secondary care data sharing, non-anonymised medical records handed over without patient consent Epic expands Microsoft partnership for AI-enhanced clinical workflows EHR Intelligence ~ Hannah Nelson ~ […]

Blog: Genie and Sonic kindle a FHIR for diagnostic requesting

25 August 2023

We sound like a broken record here but it was another big week in digital health, with a major breakthrough announced at the HL7 Australia connectathon in Brisbane that the FHIR-based eRequesting solution that Genie Solutions has been working on with Sonic Healthcare for 18 months or so is now being used by Sonic’s Queensland […]

Northland residents get access to hospital care documents through patient portal

24 August 2023

Patients in New Zealand’s Northland region will be able to access hospital care documentation through a commonly used patient portal in the next couple of weeks. Residents with an active Manage My Health portal account, which already gives them access to information held by their general practice, will now be able to opt in to […]

Genie and Sonic unveil FHIR-based eRequest solution at HL7 Australia connectathon

24 August 2023

Magentus-owned medical specialist software solution vendor Genie Solutions and pathology provider Sonic Healthcare have unveiled their jointly developed interoperable eRequests solution, which is rolling out to Sonic’s Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology laboratories this month. eRequests is said to be the first open FHIR API standards solution in Australia that allows referring specialists to provide labs with […]

National HIM Week: HIMAA eyes permanent seat at the table

23 August 2023

The Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) is searching for a new chief executive officer to lead the organisation forward as it gears up for the joint congress it is holding with the international peak HIM body later this year. Interim CEO Sallyanne Wissmann said an executive search is underway at a pivotal time […]

PHNs to spearhead MyMedicare frequent hospital users incentive scheme

23 August 2023

Nine primary health organisations (PHNs) will be chosen for the first phase of the promised frequent hospital users element of the MyMedicare voluntary patient enrolment scheme, which will aim to connect frequent hospital users to a general practice to receive multidisciplinary care in the community to reduce re-admissions. The plan is to identify patients with […]

Fewer, better platforms and national scale at the heart of NZ’s data and digital plans

23 August 2023

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand plans to consolidate its health technology assets on fewer, better cloud-delivered platforms, look to scale existing technologies on a national rather than district level and even slow down or cease planned procurements as part of its data and digital strategy in the coming years. A refresh to the […]

PROMs and PREMs explored for tinnitus digital care pathway

22 August 2023

Flinders University has partnered with health software vendor The Clinician to test the development of a new type of digital care pathway for patients with tinnitus. The pathway will use The Clinician’s ZEDOC platform to automatically send personalised patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) that people can complete on their own devices […]

MediSecure vows to remain in PDS market, releases enhanced eScript token

22 August 2023

Prescription delivery service MediSecure has vowed to remain in the market despite the federal government’s move to a single, national PDS through competitor eRx, offering itself as a private prescription service with online medication fulfilment and delivery options. MediSecure and eRx have been competitors in the electronic prescription exchange market for over a decade, and […]

PainChek rolls out to Warrigal and Whiddon, now covering 25 pc of market

21 August 2023

Digital pain assessment tool PainChek has recently rolled out to aged care providers Warrigal and Whiddon Group and is now used by over 700 aged care facilities in Australia and New Zealand. The smartphone app, which is able to detect micro-expressions indicative of pain in people with moderate to severe dementia who are unable to […]

International health IT week in review: August 20

20 August 2023

Babylon abandons Rwanda, HIEs for data sharing, UK’s 8am GP scramble, HealthPathways in Wales, transgender patient privacy breach, generative AI clinical documentation in the wild, ChatGPT factual errors and fabricated references, NHS Lanarkshire WhatsApp incident, EMIS sale, Azure large instances Babylon ‘winding down’ operations in Rwanda, potentially disrupting care for 2.8 million people Forbes ~ […]

Blog: MBS remains the bedrock but MyMedicare may shake things up

18 August 2023

Details are finally beginning to trickle out about the Department of Health and Aged Care’s MyMedicare scheme, previously known in various permutations as MyGP, voluntary patient enrolment and voluntary patient registration, and more is on the way with a series of webinars being rushed out next week. All we’ve been told so far is that […]

Sectra medical imaging system goes live across Sydney, Illawarra LHDs

17 August 2023

Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) and Sydney LHD have gone live with eHealth NSW’s enterprise medical imaging system, with Western NSW and Far West NSW to begin the roll out this month. NSW Health signed a $65 million contract with Swedish firm Sectra for the statewide radiology information and picture archiving and communication system […]

Digital patient pathways trialled for outpatient waitlist auditing

16 August 2023

Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital is trialling an AI-driven digital patient pathways tool to evaluate its use for outpatient waiting list audits. The tool is able to contact long-wait patients – those who have been waiting for outpatient appointments greater than the timeframe defined by their triage category – to see if they still need […]

Coviu partners with Tonic Media for virtual waiting room advice and resources

16 August 2023

Telehealth platform vendor Coviu has partnered with point of care media network Tonic Media to add a new feature for virtual consultation waiting rooms. The health and wellness literacy waiting room experience for patients and clients is an alternative to playing music in the virtual waiting room and is designed to provide curated lifestyle programming […]

Apollo Care rolls out four digital health solutions in one month

15 August 2023

Telstra Health has rolled out its Medication Management, Clinical Manager, Resident Manager and CareKeeper platforms across aged care provider Apollo Care’s six facilities in NSW and Queensland. Telstra Health supported the transition from Apollo Care’s previous health technology vendor and managed the roll-out across 500 aged care beds in a month. Apollo Care includes some […]

NZ Air Ambulance rolls out Celo secure messaging platform

15 August 2023

New Zealand Air Ambulance is deploying the Celo healthcare messaging solution across its fleet of 11 fixed-wing aircraft and six air ambulance bases to allow instant and secure communication among its medical, flight, and coordination personnel. The Celo system, which was also recently deployed across Doctors Without Borders’ global operations, will enable NZ Air Ambulance’s […]

MyMedicare, My Health Record and myGov: how VPE will work

14 August 2023

Patients who register with their regular general practice through the government’s new MyMedicare voluntary patient enrolment system will have those details visible on their My Health Record as soon as they register. Patients will be able to sign up to the new service through the Medicare section on myGov and choose a practice and a […]

MediRecords goes live with revamped platform for multidisciplinary care

14 August 2023

Cloud-based EMR software vendor MediRecords has gone live with its revamped platform, featuring a completely new user interface designed to optimise screen space, simplify navigation, and increase prominence for alerts and notifications. MediRecords 2.0 also includes its new universal communications bar for real time chat between team members from anywhere in MediRecords, with email integration […]

International health IT week in review: August 13

13 August 2023

Babylon’s woes increase as US arm goes bust, Babylon looks to sell off UK business, how poor interoperability limited COVID-19 vax efforts in US, Ransomware attack takes down hospital systems in four US states, Rhysida ransomware targets healthcare, generative AI not yet reliable Babylon looks to sell UK business amid bankruptcy fears Digital Health News […]

Blog: Rivers dry up for Babylon

11 August 2023

It has been obvious for some time now that UK telehealth provider Babylon was in deep doo-doo following its quite extraordinary entry into the US market, where it received a massively overpriced valuation after somehow managing to raise $US635 million in venture capital. In addition to listing on the NASDAQ, the UK company also decided […]

Ramsay to build centralised data hub, trial digital front door

10 August 2023

Private hospital provider Ramsay Health Care will trial a digital solution this month to provide patients with a single point of entry to the organisation and their specialists, including a pre-admission dashboard, digital consent capabilities and payment system. Ramsay is also planning to build a centralised data hub to provide a single source of truth […]

ADHA recruiting for head of high-profile interoperability program

10 August 2023

The Australian Digital Health Agency is looking to recruit a high-level executive with HL7 and FHIR implementation experience to take charge of the agency’s Connected Care program, which includes implementing the recently released national health interoperability plan and the soon to be released digital health standards catalogue. The role will also be in charge of […]

Eastern Melbourne PHN ends free after-hours service from My Emergency Doctor

9 August 2023

Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (EMPHN) has ended its five-year contract for free consultations with telehealth provider My Emergency Doctor (MED), with after-hours capability now being provided through alternative vehicles such as the government-funded Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED). Eastern Health and Western Victoria PHN are still using the service, which has also recently won […]

Concept connects to My Health Record through CareRight deployment

9 August 2023

Concept Fertility Centre and Concept Day Hospital in Western Australia have deployed an end-to-end solution from CareRight, including its day hospital and medical specialist consulting modules and an integration with the Artemis IVF software package from Syslinx. Concept has also connected the CareRight deployment to the My Health Record system and is using CareRight’s intelligent […]

Eastern Health telestroke expands to Tasmania, WA telestroke goes 24/7

9 August 2023

Melbourne’s Eastern Health plans to expand its regional telestroke service to Victoria’s Gippsland and Sale regions and to Burnie in Tasmania following a successful pilot at Echuca Regional Health. The virtual stroke unit, co-developed by Eastern Health stroke neurologist Philip Choi, went live during the COVID pandemic in 2021 with funding from the Avant Foundation […]

Queensland Health to replace enterprise radiology information system

9 August 2023

eHealth Queensland has issued a request for information on solutions to replace the Queensland Radiology Information System (QRiS), the foundation of which was first installed in 1999 using Cerner and Agfa technology. eHealth Queensland expects to go to market next year for the new RIS, and will also replace the state’s various picture archiving and […]

Board changes at Healthdirect and Coviu

8 August 2023

Virtual care platform vendor Coviu has appointed Jenny Aiken as the new chair of its board of directors, taking over from former chair Amandeep Hansra, who has been appointed to the board of Healthdirect Australia. Dr Hansra was chair of Coviu for five years, during which the company underwent a big expansion, particularly during the […]

Roadmap for using smartwatches for disease prevention and clinical decision making

7 August 2023

University of Queensland researchers have produced a roadmap explaining how to integrate smartwatches into clinical decision-making and chronic disease prevention in Australian healthcare, including identifying challenges preventing use and suggesting how they can be overcome. Smartwatches are able to track health metrics including step count and heart rate but the researchers say certain barriers are […]

DoHAC to publish 24/7 RN coverage through GPMS

7 August 2023

The Department of Health and Aged Care will publish data on the new 24/7 registered nurse requirement on its website later this month, with facilities that fail to report by the due date showing up as non-compliant with reporting obligations. Aged care providers are required to report their 24/7 RN coverage through the Government Provider […]

International health IT week in review: August 6

6 August 2023

NHS staff share patient data on WhatsApp during pandemic, funds coming for Oracle Cerner VA EMR, UK’s federated data platform under fire, Ontario shares data with RACFs, Amazon goes nationwide with telehealth service, Frontier Model Forum for AI in healthcare Privacy watchdog slams sharing of patient data via WhatsApp Healthcare Info Security ~ Mathew J […]

Blog: Next steps for aged care transfer summary

4 August 2023

The slow grind of getting the aged care sector upskilled and digitised took another step forward this week, with more money on offer to aged care software vendors to work on preparing their technology for the new aged care transfer summary feature that is planned for the My Health Record. A second round of funding […]

Calls for risk-based approach and national strategy for AI in healthcare

4 August 2023

Industry groups have called for a national strategy to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector, emphasising risk mitigation as a primary concern but also warning against stifling innovation. The federal Department of Industry, Science and Resources issued a discussion paper on the safe and responsible use of AI in Australia in […]

Telecare to launch RxPad mobile electronic prescribing tool

2 August 2023

Specialist virtual care provider Telecare will next week launch what it says is Australia’s first standalone electronic prescribing tool to replace the need for paper prescription pads. Aimed at specialists working in the public and private sectors, RxPad is described as a cost-efficient and standalone solution that operates on a cloud-based, mobile-native platform. It is […]

Prescription delivery service conformance live in Bp Orchid SP1

2 August 2023

Best Practice Software has released Bp Premier Orchid service pack one (SP1), which includes conformance with the new national prescription delivery service (PDS) that went live on July 1. The new PDS is a centralised service using Fred IT’s eRx Script Exchange network and funded by the federal government to the tune of $111.8 million […]

Vendors prepare for My Health Record aged care transfer summary

1 August 2023

A second industry offer worth up to $200,000 each to aged care software vendors has been released by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) to help develop a new aged care transfer feature on the My Health Record. A first round was opened in late 2021 for vendors of clinical information systems (CIS) and electronic […]

rpavirtual providing virtual fracture clinic for western NSW

31 July 2023

Physiotherapy staff at Broken Hill Health Service are helping to run a trial of a virtual clinic for patients recovering from uncomplicated fractures to allow them to access treatment without having to travel long distances. The clinic is live throughout the Far Western NSW Local Health District (FWLHD) and is being run in association with […]

International health IT week in review: July 30

30 July 2023

AWS launches generative AI for clinical notes, Singapore’s digital health plans, NHS will miss EMR target, healthcare tops money lost in data breaches, warnings about privacy risks of Meta and Google tracking tech, digital health adoption in India AWS offers generative AI documentation through API, medical imaging at scale Healthcare IT News ~ Andrea Fox […]

Digital health institute loses CEO Louise Schaper

28 July 2023

Louise Schaper, the CEO of Australasia’s peak health informatics body, has left the organisation after almost 14 years in the role. An occupational therapist by training with a PhD in health informatics, Dr Schaper took over as CEO of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) in November 2009 and oversaw the merger of HISA […]

Blog: QR codes at the pointy end of care

28 July 2023

Pulse+IT has been around the traps for so long that we remember when QR codes in healthcare were a novelty and GS1 Australia was hyping them as the next best thing after barcodes. GS1 was right and they have now become ubiquitous, whether it’s for registering to report vaccine side effects during the pandemic, scanning […]

Consumer input sought for electronic medication management review tool

28 July 2023

The Consumers Health Forum is looking for consumers to take part in two digital health projects aimed at improving medication use in residential aged care facilities being conducted by Macquarie University’s Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI). The first project is a $1 million project looking to provide evidence for how user-friendly IT systems can […]

HIVE goes live in high dependency unit at Kalgoorlie Health Campus

26 July 2023

Western Australia’s innovative Health in a Virtual Environment (HIVE) remote monitoring for clinical deterioration system has gone live at the high dependency unit at Kalgoorlie Health Campus. It is the first regional implementation of the system, which was first launched at Royal Perth Hospital in 2020 to use remote monitoring technology and artificial intelligence to […]

Accenture to build National Data Platform for Te Whatu Ora Health NZ

26 July 2023

IT services and consulting giant Accenture has won the contract to build the National Data Platform (NDP) for Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand, which will unify information previously held by numerous organisations such as district health boards. Accenture will work with Auckland data and analytics solution specialist Acumen BI on the project, which will […]

MedicAlert rolling out QR code-based ID service for access to health records

25 July 2023

The Australian MedicAlert Foundation (MedicAlert) has worked with the SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) to develop a digital solution using QR codes to give paramedics immediate access to personalised health records. MedicAlert manages its members’ medical records in addition to its well-known medical jewellery, which carries information on the wearer’s condition or allergy as well as […]

Healthcare payments platform Medipass becomes Tyro Health Online

24 July 2023

Tyro’s healthcare payments division has launched Tyro Health Online, rebranding the Medipass digital payments platform it bought in 2021 to offer one of Australia’s largest digital and terminal-based payments platform to healthcare businesses in Australia. A digital-first offering, the Tyro Health Online platform allows healthcare practitioners to access Tyro Health features through a web browser […]

Clinimetrix 2.0 adds practitioner payment tool to clinical and financial analytics

24 July 2023

The developers of the Clinimetrix practice intelligence platform have added new practitioner payment tools, improved analytics and clinical insight to the system, which is being targeted at practices looking to sign up for the MyMedicare voluntary patient enrolment scheme. CMH Practice Management says Clinimetrix is able to identify patients who fit the criteria for MyMedicare […]

Corum Group to sell pharmacy software business to software aggregator

24 July 2023

ASX-listed Corum Group has agreed to sell its pharmacy software business, which includes the Corum Clear, LOTS Dispense and Amfac Windows Dispense brands, to software aggregator Jonas Software for $6.25 million. Corum Group will retain its PharmXchange sales and marketing system and its PharmX electronic order and invoicing gateway for pharmacies, which has been the […]

International health IT week in review: July 23

23 July 2023

WHO and HL7 collaborate on interoperability, Teladoc and Microsoft partner on AI in telehealth, Google’s generative AI scores high, India’s Ayushman Bharat, ChatGPT advice similar to human, NHS trusts must have patient portal, information blocking fines for vendors, data usability initiative, NHS federated data platform, NHS short-term digital priorities WHO and HL7 collaborate on global […]

Blog: 2023 Workforce Census: who, and what, is the digital health workforce?

21 July 2023

What was formerly known as the health information workforce census and first held in 2018 in Australia and New Zealand is on again, this time rebranded as the specialist digital health workforce census and open to a global response. Its subject areas have increased from six to 21 in line with the explosion in digital […]

2023 Census takes global view of specialist digital health workforce

20 July 2023

People working in the increasingly broad sector of digital health are being invited to take part in a census of the specialist digital health workforce, which is thought to have expanded massively since the COVID 19 pandemic. The Global Specialist Digital Health Workforce Census 2023 follows the first census in 2018, organised by health workforce […]

SA Health to roll out HS8 controlled drug register across SA Pharmacy

20 July 2023

SA Health has signed a contract with healthcare software company Modeus to roll out its HS8 electronic controlled drug (eCD) register application across SA public hospital pharmacy sites. The project follows a similar statewide contract with WA Health’s Health Support Services to roll out it out across the WA hospital network. HS8 is now live […]

Orion Health upgrading BreastScreen system with eye on other screening programs

20 July 2023

Population health software vendor Orion Health is making digital upgrades to the BreastScreen Information System (BIS) for mammography-based breast screening, and is looking to expand the solution to cover other cancer screening services. Orion Health has worked with Cancer Institute NSW as a strategic partner on developing the system for BreastScreen NSW, which is also […]

Western Health goes live with EMR phase 2.1 across four hospitals

19 July 2023

Melbourne’s Western Health has gone live with phase 2.1 of its Oracle Health (Cerner) electronic medical record, rolling out across intensive care, emergency departments and operating theatres at Williamstown, Footscray and Sunshine hospitals and Sunbury Day Hospital. Western Health first implemented four core modules of the Cerner Millennium EMR in 2018 including clinical documentation, medications […]

TAC and The Clinician partner for PROMs-led, value-based healthcare approach

18 July 2023

Victoria’s Transport Accident Commission (TAC) is working with Auckland-based digital health company The Clinician to support the collection and analysis of real-time health data to help physiotherapists use outcome measures to understand client needs. The TAC’s enhanced recovery program will use The Clinician’s ZEDOC digital platform to gather information about clients’ self-reported health outcomes and […]

Cortex to be deployed for care coordination at Nurse Maude Hospice

18 July 2023

New Zealand health software company Sense Medical has signed an agreement with district nursing and palliative care service Nurse Maude to deploy its Cortex care coordination platform across the Nurse Maude Hospice inpatient unit in Christchurch. Cortex comprises a digital patient list and task manager, a clinical documentation system, electronic ordering and viewing of results, […]

MediRecords gears up for 2.0 with complete user experience revamp

17 July 2023

Cloud-based EMR software vendor MediRecords is currently in the final stages of piloting its brand new MediRecords 2.0 system, which promises a completely new user experience along with a new patient engagement platform and a universal communications bar that will allow for SMS and email on demand. MediRecords 2.0 will also be able to support […]

Western Victoria PHN to deploy Visionflex telehealth carts to RACFs

17 July 2023

Western Victoria Primary Health Network (WVPHN) has commissioned telehealth technology provider Visionflex to deploy its telehealth carts to residential aged care facilities in the region. The telehealth carts are equipped with Visionflex’s Vision video call platform and Bluetooth-enabled devices such as pulse oximeters, blood glucose, blood pressure, thermometers, weight scales digital stethoscopes, ECG, ultrasound and […]

Blog: Health data sharing: the time has come for the M word

14 July 2023

The MedInfo conference in Sydney this week may have been an international event but there was bucketloads of Australian news to report, including moves to mandate the sharing of health data with consumers and a flash new national health interoperability plan. We had a chat to the Australian Digital Health Agency’s chief digital officer Peter […]

MedInfo23: Australia to mandate sharing health data with consumers by default

13 July 2023

The Australian government will introduce legislative changes in the next 12 months to mandate the sharing of key health information with consumers by default, starting with pathology and diagnostic imaging records on the My Health Record and moving to medication events including administration. Sharing data by default – in near real time and no matter […]

MedInfo23: State of the Nation progress report on Australia’s digital health

13 July 2023

Australia’s states and territories have reported big progress on their march towards digitising healthcare services, although one jurisdiction does plan to kill its digital health strategy and strike out anew, and two others (Tasmania and South Australia) were unfortunately missing in action. A state of the nation session at the MedInfo conference in Sydney this […]

Opinion: AI will transform healthcare: Australia should seize the moment

12 July 2023

In this effervescent moment of AI renaissance triggered by ChatGPT, health is one of the most active arenas. It has been one of the hottest topics at this week’s MedInfo Congress in Sydney, where 2400 digital health leaders from around the world have converged. Among the delegates are academics, consumers, clinicians and leaders from some […]

MedInfo23: ADHA launches national health interoperability plan

12 July 2023

The Australian Digital Health Agency has released its promised national health interoperability plan and established an independent Council for Connected Care to guide progress over the next five years. A digital health standards catalogue is also due to be released shortly that will include links to relevant healthcare standards, most of which will be available […]

MedInfo23: NSW building single digital front door with Healthdirect

11 July 2023

NSW Health is developing a single digital front door to its health services with the assistance of national health advice line provider Healthdirect Australia, spurred on by a state government commitment to deliver a new range of urgent care services to reduce pressure on emergency departments and provide urgent care more appropriately in the community. […]

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