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Digital platform for safer use of medicines in residential aged care

9 May 2023

A new project supporting safer use of medicines in residential aged care aims to develop a national system of routinely collected data on medicines use and safety, with the hope of developing an electronic platform in future. The Pharmacists Actioning Rational use of Medicines in Aged Care (PHARMA-Care) quality monitoring project will leverage South Australia’s […]

Genie Solutions, Citadel Health owner rebrands as Magentus

9 May 2023

The Citadel Group, the owner of health technology software firms Citadel Health, Genie Solutions and Wellbeing Software, has consolidated the three companies under a new unified brand dubbed Magentus, drawing together operations across its primary markets in the UK and Australia and looking to expand globally. Citadel Health is best known in Australia for its […]

BetterConsult adds mental health pre-screening, preventative health support

8 May 2023

Extra functionality has been added to pre-consultation clinical questionnaire platform BetterConsult to help support mental health-related consults, including the K10 and DASS21 questionnaires, along with the ability to find at-risk patients for preventative health initiatives. BetterConsult, developed by digital health firm HealthShare and integrated with Best Practice, is a digital clinical questionnaire that provides GPs […]

International health IT week in review: May 7

7 May 2023

Masimo’s case against Apple over IP infringement for Smartwatch fails, Boston Children’s Hospital and ChatGPT, docs prefer face to face over virtual care, Amazon’s healthcare ventures unsuccessful, US VA’s Oracle Cerner EHRM disaster, interoperability drives post-acute care referral decisions Apple-Masimo smartwatch trade secrets suit ends in mistrial MobiHealthNews ~ Emily Olsen ~ 02/05/2023 The jury […]

Blog: My Health Record funding secured, now for the details

6 May 2023

It came as no real surprise that Australian health minister Mark Butler committed to the long-term future of the My Health Record system and the Australian Digital Health Agency in his speech to the National Press Club on Tuesday, when he announced over $950 million worth of investment in digital health, although where this money […]

Dedalus rolls out DC4H interoperability platform across ANZ

5 May 2023

Healthcare software solutions giant Dedalus has released extra capabilities in its Digital Connect 4 Health (DC4H) interoperability platform, released to the Australian and New Zealand markets late last year. The DC4H platform brings together a number of technologies developed over the years by Dedalus in Europe but also under its former corporate guise with DXC […]

HealthOne/Health Connect South extends reach across South Island

4 May 2023

More than 90 per cent of aged residential care (ARC) facilities across New Zealand’s South Island are now using the Health Connect South/HealthOne systems to access patients’ electronic health care records and shared care plans. Clinicians from telehealth services Healthline and Practice Plus also received access to HealthOne just before Christmas, enabling clinicians to access […]

Butler commits to long-term funding for My Health Record

3 May 2023

Health Minister Mark Butler has committed to ongoing funding for both the Australian Digital Health Agency and the My Health Record system. Mr Butler told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday that next week’s federal budget would include over $950 million worth of investment in digital health, including funding to make the Australian Digital […]

Core Schedule enters ANZ aged care market with AWS assistance

3 May 2023

Wellington-based workforce management and rostering solution vendor Core Schedule plans to enter the aged care sector in Australia and New Zealand, having refined its scheduling platform with the help of AWS’s cloud computing capabilities. Core Schedule was first developed by emergency physician Stephen C. Pool for New York hospitals but found its home at Wellington […]

Telemonitoring reduced avoidable admissions for older people at home in STAAR-SA trial

3 May 2023

A South Australian trial of telemonitoring technology to help prevent avoidable hospital admissions and emergency department presentations in elderly people living at home may be extended to other regional parts of SA. The trial of over 300 older people in the Riverland Mallee Corrong region found early intervention through home telemonitoring prevented 53 admissions or […]

Florence rolling out for outpatient management at Sydney LHD

2 May 2023

Sydney Local Health District (LHD) is rolling out an enhanced version of the Florence digital patient appointment management and engagement platform developed during the pandemic for COVID-19 vaccination to try to meet the challenge of increasing wait times for specialist medical appointments. The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) is running a new research project […]

Coviu partners with Alcidion for enhanced remote patient monitoring

2 May 2023

Australia virtual care solution vendor Coviu has partnered with health informatics platform Alcidion to launch a new integration for real time remote patient monitoring facilitated by virtual consultations. The integration involves Alcidion’s Miya Care app, which allows care teams to set up tasks for the patient to complete while recovering at home. Patients selected for […]

EpiSoft launches ‘try before you buy’ option for cancer care software

2 May 2023

Australian digital health company EpiSoft has launched a new self sign-up option for its cancer care software that will allow oncology clinics, hospitals and hospital-in-the-home providers to trial the technology. EpiSoft Cancer is a modularised application with features that include chemotherapy drug administration management, electronic medical record and administrative management. A big feature of the […]

Survey to help determine digital maturity in the aged and community care sector

1 May 2023

The Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council (ACIITC) is running a survey in conjunction with the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) to help determine the digital maturity of the sector. The digital maturity project will develop a digital maturity assessment framework and build a tool that can help improve aged care organisations’ digital maturity. A […]

Altera promotes Todd Haebich to head APAC region

1 May 2023

Altera Digital Health has promoted its ANZ general manager Todd Haebich to the position of executive vice president for the Asia-Pacific region, adding south-east Asia to his responsibilities. Altera Digital Health, formerly the hospital and large physician practice division of Allscripts, has supplied its Sunrise electronic medical record to Singapore’s SingHealth since 1998 and last […]

Sydney Uni appoints applied AI expert as clinical informatics professor

1 May 2023

Former Harrison.ai head of applied AI Ben Hachey has been appointed as the first Beamtree associate professor in clinical informatics at the University of Sydney. The role is being supported by ASX-listed health data analytics company Beamtree and will see Dr Hachey lead research projects in applied AI for healthcare data at the university’s Faculty […]

Hira on the market for event notification service

1 May 2023

Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand will go to market this month for a business partner to help deliver an event notification service solution for the Hira national health information platform that will let healthcare providers know that details about a patient have changed. The service will notify providers when a patient’s information has changed, […]

Extra funding secured for data and digital at new Dunedin Hospital

1 May 2023

The NZ government has reversed some of the cuts to the budget for building the new Dunedin Hospital, while also securing funding of $97 million for data and digital infrastructure to make the hospital operational. Significant funding was announced in last year’s budget for the Southern Health system digital transformation program, including funds for stage […]

International health IT week in review: April 30

30 April 2023

US VA halts $16b Oracle Cerner roll-out indefinitely, digital transformation of Indian healthcare system, AI-driven long COVID app, Amazon sunsets Halo, telehealth access for opioid use disorder, mobile diabetic app tracking breach VA pauses $16B Oracle Cerner EHR deployments indefinitely to address error-ridden early rollout FierceHealthcare ~ Dave Muoio ~ 21/04/2023 The beleaguered effort involves […]

Blog: Butler shows some mettle on 60-day dispensing

28 April 2023

National Cabinet met today in Brisbane to discuss key national priorities, and top of the agenda was the desperate state of the healthcare system, which the state and federal governments have all agreed is the number one priority for this year. It was the first meeting since the NSW election and saw all but one […]

SHOC WAVED: WA to combine virtual care pilots with statewide operations centre

28 April 2023

The West Australian government has allocated $75 million in next month’s state budget to a range of initiatives to reduce unnecessary visits to the ED and alleviate bed block, including extending the WA Virtual ED (WAVED) pilot to community and aged care and setting up a State Health Operations Centre (SHOC) to improve monitoring and […]

Royal Adelaide Hospital reduces FTA rates with digital pathway

27 April 2023

Failure to attend rates at Royal Adelaide Hospital’s orthopaedic outpatients clinic have fallen by 56 per cent following the implementation of a digital solution aimed at tackling long wait lists. The project has removed traditional phone calls and letters and replaced them with a digital patient experience that sends a patient’s preparation needs, appointment notifications […]

NSW Health rolling out children’s hospitals’ virtualKIDS model for urgent care

27 April 2023

NSW Health plans to roll out the virtualKIDS urgent care service set up by Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) in December to the rest of the state. The new service builds on SCHN’s virtualKIDS model of care that was set up during the COVID pandemic to care for children virtually, using technology widely used by […]

Smarter Safer Homes and Talius to be tested in the wild for falls prevention

26 April 2023

The Smarter Safer Homes sensor technology algorithm developed by the CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre (AeHRC) and integrated into HSC Technology Group’s Talius data analytics platform is set to be tested in a new trial with residential aged care provider Whiddon Group for falls prevention. The new study follows the first roll-out of the integrated […]

Sunshine Private Hospital opens with Kyra Clinical EMR and MedicalDirector

26 April 2023

The new $140 million Sunshine Private Hospital that opened recently in Melbourne’s west went live with Telstra Health’s Kyra Clinical electronic medical record along with MedicalDirector Clinical and MedicalDirector Bluechip in specialist consulting suites. The hospital, operated by Unitas Healthcare, is part of the Sunshine Health, Wellbeing and Education precinct that also includes the Sunshine […]

HealthShare to snap up MyHealth1st booking solution for $1.5m

24 April 2023

Digital solutions vendor HealthShare has agreed to buy online appointment booking service MyHealth1st from parent company 1st Group for $1.5 million. HealthShare is best known for its health practitioner directory and its Specialist Referrals Directory and FactSheets, which are both integrated into Best Practice and MedicalDirector. It also markets the BetterConsult pre-consultation questionnaire system. MyHealth1st […]

Teladoc and Philips partner with Mater Health for neonatal virtual care

24 April 2023

Queensland’s Mater Health is rolling out a neonatal virtual care program to provide senior neonatologist support to Central Queensland, based on a platform first developed for Mayo Clinic’s tele-neonatology service using technology from Teladoc Health and Royal Philips. Philips and Teladoc Health’s ANZ division signed a partnership in September 2021 to market a virtual care […]

International health IT week in review: April 23

23 April 2023

FHIR R5 DSTU released, “All of Us” genomics data sets and EMR info, digital maturity of hospitals improves patient safety, FHIR bulk data access API, Microsoft and Epic partner on OpenAI tools, HIMSS’ community care outcomes maturity model, Salesforce Health Cloud software solution Latest FHIR standard R5 elevates data exchange, interoperability EHR Intelligence ~ Sarai […]

Blog: Medicare digital health grants open but sorely lacking in detail

21 April 2023

Applications for federal government’s $220 million Strengthening Medicare general practice grants program opened this week, with the primary health networks all contacting general practices in their regions to encourage them to apply. The grants are reasonably substantial in the scheme of things, although we reckon they won’t make the slightest difference to the perilous state […]

Macquarie University Hospital live with h-trak system in operating theatres

20 April 2023

Sydney’s Macquarie University Hospital is now live with the first phase of a roll-out of the Prospitalia h-trak system for interventional supply chain management in its operating theatres. The project began in August in 2022 and the second phase will involve implementation in the angio suite, endoscopy and the trans-oesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) departments. The h-trak […]

Vensa Health integrates with Healthpoint directory using FHIR standard API

20 April 2023

Auckland-based digital health company Vensa Health has partnered with online directory service Healthpoint to integrate Healthpoint’s FHIR standard API into Vensa’s repeat prescription application to enable patient choice of pharmacy selection. Patients can order repeat script requests for themselves and their whānau and search for the nearest pharmacy based on their geo-location on their mobile, […]

Digital front door to primary care rolling out across NSW North Coast

19 April 2023

An innovative new 24/7 nurse triage and advice service that aims to improve community access to healthcare across the NSW North Coast should be available to all residents in the region by mid-2023. North Coast Health Connect, which recently launched to Coffs Harbour postcodes after successful launches in the Port Macquarie and Kempsey regions, includes […]

Shexie integrates with SmartForms for fitness to drive, My Aged Care

19 April 2023

Specialist practice management software vendor Shexie has completed its integration with HealthLink SmartForms in its Shexie Platinum product. SmartForms such as the Transport NSW fitness to drive medical assessment can now be filled out automatically based on the patient and provider information stored within the Shexie Platinum database. SmartForms allows medical practices to submit clinical […]

Aged care star ratings preview now available through GPMS

19 April 2023

Residential aged care providers can now preview their quarterly star ratings before they are published on the My Aged Care website following recent releases of the Department of Health and Aged Care’s new Government Provider Management System (GPMS). GPMS has been built using Salesforce technology and went live in December 2022 to support the new […]

MedInfo23: How to enhance an implementation plan for a digital falls prevention platform

18 April 2023

CSIRO researchers have developed a blueprint showing how to enhance the implementation of a digital falls prevention platform for inpatient care, using the example of the new Maitland Hospital near Newcastle in NSW. The study looked at the roll-out of Rauland Australia’s Concentric Care fall prevention platform at the 300-bed Maitland Hospital, studying four inpatient […]

Baret role-based messaging app rolls out at Victorian Heart Hospital

18 April 2023

The new Victorian Heart Hospital (VHH) at the Monash Health campus at Clayton has opened without traditional pagers, instead rolling out the Baret role-based messaging app developed by digital consulting service FiveP built using Microsoft Teams technology. Baret was first piloted at Monash Health last year and has also been trialled at Austin Health, designed […]

Northern Health providing heart health at home with digital exam device

17 April 2023

Melbourne’s Northern Health has developed an innovative program using TytoCare’s remote exam technology to provide Hospital in the Home (HITH) care for patients with heart failure. The technology is being piloted through Northern Health’s Heart Failure Virtual Ward and aims to enable better access to specialist assessment for patients at home. TytoCare’s platform involves a […]

Genie Solutions and Cubiko provide insight through practice intelligence platform

17 April 2023

Specialist practice management software vendor Genie Solutions has worked with practice intelligence platform developer Cubiko to launch Insights powered by Cubiko, a practice analytics tool that presents practice data in easy-to-understand dashboards to view and interpret practice financials and overall performance. Insights is the first Genie Solutions product to launch on its interoperability platform, which […]

International health IT week in review: April 16

16 April 2023

Accenture on AI and ChatGPT, remote patient monitoring, augmented intelligence in pathology, more troubles for US VA Oracle Cerner EHRM, Lyniate returns to Rhapsody roots, hospital homepages and patient data, NHS Covid-19 app, Uber Health and meds delivery AI, ChatGPT poised to potentially transform healthcare, science Health IT Analytics ~ Mark Melchionna ~ 12/04/2023 A […]

Blog: Big fillip for everyone as Medicare rorts report vindicates all

14 April 2023

When former Victorian Department of Health secretary and now Deloitte Access Economics bigwig Pradeep Philip released his review into Medicare compliance and integrity last week, the eagerly awaited report was greeted by all and sundry as complete vindication of their stance, no matter how diametrically opposed they all were. The review, called by Health Minister […]

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

14 April 2023

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Victoria is on the market for an integrated electronic health record (EHR) as part of its new My Flying Doctor platform, looking for a single, commercially available system that will predominantly service the charity’s range of primary and allied health services. The new system will involve a single clinical […]

WA Health live at first site with $47m enterprise medical imaging platform

13 April 2023

WA Health is now live in its first site for its new enterprise medical imaging platform (EMIP), which will see nine public hospitals with a medical imaging department progressively transitioned to the new system by October. EMIP is replacing the existing Agfa radiology information system/picture archiving and communication system (RIS/PACS) with a new software solution […]

Brendan Murphy to retire from DoHAC

13 April 2023

Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) secretary Brendan Murphy will retire after two years in the role. Professor Murphy joined the department in 2016 as chief medical officer before stepping up as secretary, where he led the department through the COVID-19 pandemic. A nephrologist by profession, he was formerly president of the Australian and New Zealand […]

HoloLens roll-out brings specialist virtual care to East Gippsland patients

12 April 2023

Residents across Victoria’s East Gippsland are accessing virtual care including specialist care in their own communities using the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology. Eleven HoloLens devices have been deployed across East Gippsland with 25 clinicians now trained in their use for enhanced telehealth. Home visits using HoloLens will also soon be rolled out. A spokesperson […]

DC2Vue adds ePrescribing, MIMS integration to care co-ordination platform

12 April 2023

Melbourne-based digital health platform vendor Data Capture Experts has achieved conformance with the Australian Digital Health Agency’s (ADHA) ePrescribing standards for its flagship DC2Vue care coordination platform. ePrescribing functionality has been made available version 3.9 of DC2Vue, which also includes integration with drug reference system MIMS, allowing users to access dosage recommendations, contraindications, drug interactions […]

MedInfo23: Virtual wound care command centre to go live at rpavirtual

11 April 2023

Sydney Local Health District (LHD) plans to go live with a virtual wound care command centre at the rpavirtual hospital in July, offering services to residential aged care, burns, acute care and general practice patients. The initiative will be discussed at the Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference, a pre-conference event being staged with MedInfo23 […]

Provider Connect Australia to begin national roll-out as vaccine clinic finder connect closes down

8 April 2023

General practices and community pharmacies will be able to sign up for the free Provider Connect Australia (PCA) service from July, with those using the federal government’s COVID Vaccine Clinic Finder Connect portal currently being transitioned over to the new service as VCFC is decommissioned. Provider Connect Australia has been developed by the Australian Digital […]

Genie and Sonic develop draft FHIR guide for electronic orders

6 April 2023

Medical specialist software vendor Genie Solutions and laboratory medicine giant Sonic Healthcare have got together to develop a draft FHIR implementation guide (IG) for pathology and radiology ordering, which they hope will pave the way for a new FHIR specification to define how electronic orders (eOrders) are sent between healthcare providers in Australia. The two […]

Pharmacy and meds management specialists Z Software and Medi-Map to merge

6 April 2023

Sydney-based community pharmacy software vendor Z Software is merging with electronic medication management specialist Medi-Map. The merger aims to provide advanced pharmacy dispensing and medication management solutions across a range of health services, including community pharmacy, hospitals, general practices and aged care facilities. Z Software markets a dispensary, retail, back office and head office product […]

ACDC Plus to trial FHIR-powered quality indicator app with Regis and AutumnCare

5 April 2023

Aged care provider Regis Aged Care and its resident care software supplier AutumnCare will begin a trial this month of a prototype quality indicator application that may be used as a quality benchmarking and reporting solution for the residential aged care sector. The app will incorporate the Department of Health and Aged Care’s national aged […]

Healthdirect retires Vaccine Clinic Finder tool, combines with Service Finder site

5 April 2023

Healthdirect Australia has retired its Vaccine Clinic Finder for COVID-19 vaccination bookings and transferred the data in a refreshed version of its healthdirect Service Finder, the consumer website for searching the National Health Services Directory. Vaccine Clinic Finder was launched in 2021 to find and book COVID-19 vaccines and has been used over 52 million […]

Philip report recommends replacing Medicare rules engine, checking claims in PMS

4 April 2023

The technology underpinning the Medicare payments system needs a significant revamp, with a need for greater data checks in practice management software and the replacement of the ageing Medicare Common Assessment rules engine. The recommendations are part of the independent review into Medicare compliance and integrity headed by former Victorian Department of Health and Human […]

HealthEngine to restructure as co-founder Marcus Tan set to move on

3 April 2023

Online appointment booking and directory service HealthEngine is undergoing a restructure, with co-founder Marcus Tan to move on as CEO and the company to refocus the business on its SaaS platform. Dr Tan co-founded HealthEngine in 2009 as a digital directory and later added its online appointment booking service that is used by GPs, allied […]

RFDS to provide after-hours telehealth across north Queensland

3 April 2023

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) will provide after-hours telehealth services to the Cairns, Townsville and Mackay regions after signing an extended contract with commissioning body the Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN). RFDS is already providing after-hours services to the Torres and Cape region with particular emphasis on vulnerable populations, such as First Nations […]

Healthpoint live with immunisation services directory for flu season

3 April 2023

New Zealand’s health services directory Healthpoint has gone live with a national immunisations services directory to enable easier navigation for the community to find vaccination options as the 2023 flu campaign begins. The directory has been designed with vaccination providers and uses the knowledge gained from Healthpoint’s development of the national COVID-19 vaccination service directory. […]

Te Tai Tokerau Northland patient portal to give patients access to hospital records

3 April 2023

Te Whatu Ora Te Tai Tokerau Northland has partnered with online portal vendor Manage My Health to provide patients with access to some of their hospital information, including outpatients letters and discharge summaries, through the portal. Manage My Health is a secure online portal platform that gives patients access to information held by their GP […]

International health IT week in review: April 2

2 April 2023

Telstra Health UK’s VaxApp gets NHS approval, cracking down on health-tracking apps, India’s digital health infrastructure, what ChatGPT means for healthcare, medical devices and cybersecurity, too many dashboards, not enough insight Helix VaxApp gets approval from NHSE to boost vaccine management Digital Health News ~ Andrea Chipman ~ 28/03/2023 MedicalDirector UK’s Helix VaxApp has received […]

Blog: Guild ups the ante in scope of practice stoush

31 March 2023

It’s not usually a topic Pulse+IT ventures down but the stoush between the pharmacy sector and the medical profession over the highly controversial scope of practice trial being planned for northern Queensland later in the year was brought home this week with the release of a tender for a software solution to support the pilot. […]

Alfred Health implements Alcidion’s command centre for view of patient flow

30 March 2023

Melbourne’s Alfred Health has implemented three modules in Alcidion’s Miya Precision platform that will give it oversight and management of patient flow and care pathways across the organisation. Alfred Health has gone live with Miya Flow, Miya Access and Miya Command across its three hospitals, providing staff with a view of the status of all […]

MBS funding for blended care, DiGA trial could free up in-person care: Black Dog

29 March 2023

The Black Dog Institute is pushing for MBS-funded trials of blended care – combined digital and face-to-face therapies – for mental health treatment including physicians prescribing approved apps. In its pre-budget submission, Australia’s leading mental health research centre says blended care, including apps and online modules, could dramatically increase the number of Australians receiving mental […]

NQPHN aims to boost aged care telehealth, digital capability in remote regions

29 March 2023

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) is hoping to boost the uptake of telehealth in residential aged care facilities and fund growth of digital health capability in local health care services through two recent initiatives. The PHN recently contracted with Gold Coast-based Enkindle Consulting – co-founded by noted aged care technology expert and former Feros […]

Personify Care to roll out digital patient pathways across SA Health

28 March 2023

Adelaide-based digital health platform developer Personify Care has won a $5.6 million, two-year whole of SA Health agreement to offer its digital patient pathways platform across the state. Personify Care’s platform enables a digital patient pathway to be created once a referral has been received to support patient education, pre-admission, outpatients, discharge and care transition […]

Ryan Park named as NSW health minister

28 March 2023

Former NSW shadow health minister and minister for mental health Ryan Park has been named as the state’s new health minister following Labor’s win in the state election last week. Mr Park is a former PE teacher who also worked as a curriculum adviser at the Department of Education and as deputy director general for […]

Robyn Ward joins Telstra Health board

28 March 2023

Cancer researcher and clinician Robyn Ward has been appointed to the Telstra Health board. Professor Ward has served as pro-vice chancellor medicine and health, and executive dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. She has been chair of the federal government’s Medical Services Advisory Committee since 2009, advising the […]

Pharmacy Guild seeking IT solution with prescribing capability for NQ trial

27 March 2023

The Queensland branch of the Pharmacy Guild is looking for an IT solution with prescribing capabilities to support the North Queensland community pharmacy scope of practice pilot, which will allow specially trained community pharmacists to treat patients – including writing prescriptions – for 23 health conditions. The development of the pilot by Queensland Health and […]

Fred adds MedAdvisor, ScryptHQ to its marketplace hub

27 March 2023

Pharmacy software specialist Fred IT has added three new software partners to its online Fred Marketplace for approved third-party apps and integrations, including MedAdvisor and its PlusOne platform and Scrypt Ventures’ ScryptHQ CRM system. It has also partnered with Fluger for its vaccination bookings, CRM, billings, cold chain and nurse/facilitator management solution. The new additions […]

Hira Marketplace grows as NZ terminology service expands

27 March 2023

There are now seven APIs and three digital services on the Hira Marketplace, New Zealand’s single point of entry that houses APIs for vendors and healthcare providers to connect to health information from national data repositories and other trusted sources. One is the New Zealand Health Terminology Service (NZHTS), which launched late last year at […]

International health IT week in review: March 26

26 March 2023

UK’s digital health formulary, Singaporeans reluctant to share, digital health start-ups, immediate access to test results, telemonitoring on livestream, start-ups and Silicon Valley Bank, UK NHS and Palantir, US national provider directory, European digital identity, EMRs and patient safety Cybersecurity concern is biggest obstacle in sharing digital health data Singapore Business Review ~ Staff writer […]

Blog: Woolies wags tongues with telehealth move

24 March 2023

Supermarket giant Woolworths banked a fully stocked trolley-load of free publicity this week when it announced through Channel Nine and News Corp media that it was launching a new telehealth service for its HealthyLife subsidiary. Some outlets fell for the spin so hard they claimed that Woolies had “solved the Aussie GP problem” but pretty […]

Free FHIR training to ignite drive towards interoperability: ADHA

24 March 2023

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has partnered with HL7 Australia to support a series of free training courses in the Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard, aiming to rapidly upskill the software developer community to fast-track the march towards interoperability. The partners have set a target of 370 supported places in the first year […]

Police called, staff sacked over leaking of patient records to ANMF

23 March 2023

One Canberra Health Service staff member has been sacked and a police investigation launched over the sharing of clinical records of 13 patients with a third-party organisation, which today was named as the ACT branch of the Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation (ANMF). ABC News revealed earlier this week that an investigation was underway by Canberra […]

Avant pulls the plug on indemnity for asynchronous consults

23 March 2023

Medical indemnity insurer Avant Mutual has made changes to its policy to rule out coverage for telehealth consults involving text or questionnaire-based prescriptions, test requests and medical certificates without a previous in-person consultation. The change comes as the Medical Board of Australia continues its consultation on guidelines for telehealth, which has raised the issue of […]

Global Health to provide telehealth platform for Woolies’ online health and wellness site

22 March 2023

Global Health has partnered with supermarket giant Woolworths to offer GP telehealth consults through Woolies’ HealthyLife site, using the ASX-listed software vendor’s HotHealth platform and Teledoc telehealth service. Woolworths launched HealthyLife as a digital start-up in 2021 to provide a range of health services and advice along with fitness and nutrition tracking, vitamins and sports […]

Call for digital support for people with chronic fatigue, long COVID

21 March 2023

A national patient advocacy organisation for people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and those with long COVID is seeking federal support to build a comprehensive telehealth, digital wellbeing and medical education package. Emerge Australia has lodged a pre-budget submission asking for $4.8 million in federal funding over three years for the digital wellbeing […]

Queensland’s famed QSkin study hit by data breach

20 March 2023

Survey forms for the 2021 QSkin study run by Queensland’s QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute may have been compromised in a cyber attack on a third-party data processing company last November. QIMR Berghofer has run the QSkin study for over a decade, collecting data including genetic information from people who have had skin cancer. The […]

Hobart Clinic rolls out CareRight integrated platform

20 March 2023

Tasmanian mental healthcare provider The Hobart Clinic has rolled out Clintel’s CareRight platform across its inpatient and outpatient hospital and community care services. The CareRight platform includes an integrated patient administration system, electronic medical record, and billing and claiming capabilities. CareRight is replacing two legacy systems as well as spreadsheet-based recording. The Hobart Clinic offers […]

Automated capture of care time for AN-ACC through Bluetooth interface

20 March 2023

Telstra Health joint venture PowerHealth has partnered with workplace location technology vendor Contact Harald to develop a solution that can electronically capture activity data for costing studies and comparison with the Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) funding model. Contact Harald uses wireless Bluetooth cards and bracelets worn by staff to automatically capture care time. […]

International health IT week in review: March 19

19 March 2023

Silicon Valley Bank failure and digital health start-ups, telehealth now BAU for US doctors, Google’s medical large language model, Google’s Open Health Stack, Emotet malware again active, Surescripts’ massive data exchange, consumer adoption of digital health products, 10 more years of VistA Digital health companies take stock of exposure to SVB failure as feds take […]

Blog: Debate fires up over telehealth rule changes

17 March 2023

The debate over the Medical Board of Australia’s proposed changes to its guidelines for telehealth consultations with patients was reignited this week, with the Medical Software Industry Association taking aim at what it says are potential unintended consequences of the recommendations. The MSIA points out that rules for a pre-digital world are not really going […]

Medical Board urged to move beyond telehealth to virtual care in guideline review

16 March 2023

Australasia’s leading digital health institute has called on the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) to broaden its definition of telehealth and technology-based consultations with the term “virtual care”. In its submission to the Medical Board’s current consultation on proposed revised guidelines for telehealth consultations with patients, the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) says healthcare […]

Melbourne study tests if Apple Watch ECG can help prevent heart damage in kids

16 March 2023

Melbourne researchers are trialling Apple Watches to see if they can help prevent heart damage in children undergoing chemotherapy. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) will use the Apple Watch electrocardiogram (ECG) function to remotely monitor damage to children’s hearts during cancer therapy in the hope it will identify opportunities for possible interventions. The trial in […]

eHealth NSW CTO moves on to Telstra Health

16 March 2023

Former eHealth NSW executive Farhoud Salimi has been appointed as Telstra Health’s new chief technology officer, beginning on April 17. He takes over from Russel Duncan, who retired last year having joined Telstra Health when it bought Emerging Systems in 2014. Mr Salimi spent 14 years with NSW Health/eHealth NSW, including the last five as […]

VR and telehealth may help relieve endometriosis pain: study

15 March 2023

Exercises delivered via a virtual reality device and telehealth may help relieve the pelvic pain from endometriosis, a Flinders University study has found. The study, which the researchers believe is the first to explore the impact of telehealth-delivered exercise on endometriosis-associated pelvic pain, aimed to determine the immediate impact of a single one-hour session of […]

Bestmed integrates with Choice Aged Care tool to automate reporting

15 March 2023

Medication management system vendor Bestmed has partnered with pharmacy professional services provider Choice Aged Care to integration their systems, allowing data to be securely transferred between Bestmed’s medication management system and Choice Aged Care’s PPASS3 auditing and benchmarking system. The integration has been tried and tested on a large scale with Southern Cross Care NSW/ACT, […]

CareHQ adds after-hours, injury management to virtual GP service

15 March 2023

New Zealand’s joint venture online GP service CareHQ has added three new clinics to its platform, including a new after-hours service, one for short-term visitors and an injury management service. CareHQ is a joint venture between ProCare PHO and insurer Southern Crossfirst launched in 2020. It is accessible through the CareHQ app or the My […]

MSIA calls for delay in Medical Board’s telehealth rule changes

14 March 2023

The Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA) wants further consultation on the Medical Board of Australia’s proposed changes to its telehealth guidelines, saying there could be “serious unintended consequences” if the changes are approved. The Medical Board has issued draft revised guidelines on telehealth consultations which include new guidance on issues such as consulting with or […]

Global Health launches discharge summary module, goes live with inpatient EMR

14 March 2023

EMR vendor Global Health has begun the commercial roll-out of its MasterCare discharge summary module as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) option, helping the target private hospital market to upload discharge summaries to a patient’s My Health Record. Global Health says the module is positioned as a cost effective first step in a private hospital’s move to […]

ScriptCheckWA launch completes nationwide implementation of RTPM

13 March 2023

The WA Department of Health’s new ScriptCheckWA system for monitoring controlled drugs will be released to GPs and community pharmacists on March 28, completing a nationwide roll-out of real-time prescription monitoring (RTPM) more than 10 years after it was first promised. ScriptCheckWA has been tested with WA doctors in the first two months of 2023 […]

Medi-Map adds single sign-on to meds management platform

13 March 2023

Electronic medication management specialist Medi-Map has released single sign-on (SSO) for its Medi-Map platforms in New Zealand and Australia, allowing users to access the platform using their organisation login credentials. Medi-Map is a shared solution designed to give GPs, pharmacists and aged care facilities access to a shared interface for residents’ medications charts, which can […]

International health IT week in review: March 12

12 March 2023

Singapore review of COVID data program, virtual care for health promotion and loneliness, ONC report on US interoperability, DirectTrust to enhance data exchange directory, WeightWatchers goes digital, ChatGPT for paperwork and billing, 96% of US hospitals using certified EMR, telemedicine in ASEAN, EMR interoperability in Ontario Singapore admits it should have explained COVID app data […]

Blog: The cost of conformance for aged care software

10 March 2023

The Department of Health and Aged Care has been running a series of online tech talks for the aged care industry in the last year as the sector grapples with the monumental changes it is confronting from the recommendations of the Royal Commission. We’ve always found the webinars pretty good in terms of explaining what […]

Victorian health information sharing bill to pass following access amendments

9 March 2023

Amendments to legislation allowing better sharing of electronic medical records in Victoria’s public health services have been agreed to, with the bill passing the upper house today. The legislation will allow authorised healthcare professionals to access patient data already held by Victorian health services electronically through a proposed electronic patient health information sharing system. The […]

Over 600 general practices sign up for NSW Health’s Lumos data linkage program

9 March 2023

More than 630 general practices or about one in four in NSW have enrolled in NSW Health’s Lumos data linkage and analytics program, which provides insights on the patient journey through the state’s health system. Lumos is understood to be Australia’s first state-wide linked data asset across primary care and other settings. It extracts de-identified […]

Pegasus Health to save digital therapeutics app Melon Health’s bacon

8 March 2023

Christchurch-based primary health organisation Pegasus Health has agreed to purchase the operating platforms of health app developer Melon Health before it enters liquidation. Melon was set up in 2012 and provides a number of supported self-management and behaviour change programs on its digital health platform, which includes goal-setting capabilities, app-based health coaching, and medication and […]

New recipe to guide GPs in NWMPHN risk assessment, recall and referral project

8 March 2023

A pilot quality improvement project to improve early detection and prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes features a new “recipe” to give GPs a step-by-step guide to identifying at-risk patients. It also includes a decision support tool, designed by North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network (NWMPHN), to provide clinicians with guidance around which patients can […]

My Aged Care hospital portal opens up for discharge planning

7 March 2023

The Department of Health and Aged Care is rolling out a hospital portal into the My Aged Care system which will allow authorised discharge planning staff to view a summary of a patient’s aged care assessment information. The portal is being rolled out to over 270 hospitals in the next few months and is aimed […]

$250k funding pool on offer for digital health research in primary care

7 March 2023

Private health fund Medibank and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) have got together to jointly offer a $250,000 funding pool to fund two projects focusing on digital health in primary care. The funding is aimed at GP-led research projects, and will cover direct research costs only rather than software development or programming. […]

AMA raises concerns over QScript, seeks exemptions for ED and aged care

6 March 2023

The Queensland branch of the Australian Medical Association (AMAQ) has raised concerns about the administrative burden associated with the implementation of the QScript real-time prescription monitoring system, and has called for exemptions to made for emergency department patients and patients in residential aged care. It has also objected to the mass emailing of letters to […]

Walrus point of care tool to prompt risk screening in HepLOGIC study

6 March 2023

A Victorian study starting in April to test digital tools aimed at improving identification and care of people at risk of viral hepatitis and liver cancer needs more general practice clinics to take part. The HepLOGICstudy requires 20 general practices from three primary health network areas to test a clinical decision support system which integrates […]

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