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Wavelink adds Scandit barcode scanning platform to mobile portfolio

29 November 2022

Wavelink has signed a distribution agreement with Swiss data capture company Scandit for its data smartphone-based data capture technology, which is integrated with Spectralink’s Versity smartphones as well as hospital EMRs. Scandit’s platform enables smart devices such as smartphones to scan information on patient wristbands, specimens and medical supplies and upload the data to the […]

Federated data platform for Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand

29 November 2022

Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand is planning to establish a nationally consistent system of data capture, analytics and intelligence and is looking for registrations of interest (ROI) from organisations to help design and implement this system as the country’s National Data Platform (NDP). The NDP is described as a federated data platform made up […]

Register of recommended telehealth equipment for residential aged care

28 November 2022

Primary Health Tasmania and the Victorian primary health networks are developing a register of recommended telehealth equipment for residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Vendors are being invited to apply to be included on the register of recommended telehealth products so residents can consult with their primary healthcare providers and specialists virtually. According to Primary Health […]

Silverchain to explore tech implementation for in-home care

28 November 2022

Aged and community care provider Silverchain has partnered with the National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) at Royal Melbourne Hospital for a project looking at implementing technology-supported home-based care for older Australians. Silverchain and NARI have received a grant from the newly established Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) to develop methods on how […]

Bolton Clarke trials wearable device to track conversations and loneliness

28 November 2022

Aged care provider Bolton Clarke and RMIT are running a trial of the 3D-printed wearable CaT (Conversation as Therapy) pin device they have developed to track the conversations older people have during the day to see if it correlates with risk of loneliness. The device takes the form of a lapel pin or brooch and […]

Tend to help support South Island practices with technology platforms

28 November 2022

Online and in-person primary healthcare provider Tend Health has taken a 50 per cent stake in South Island general practice group Better Health, which will see Tend roll out its technology platform and model of care to 14 Better Health medical centres. Tend provides telehealth and electronic prescription services along with in-person GP care at […]

The big flip: NSW Health on an epic journey

25 November 2022

Pulse+IT can safely say that there’s not been a story in eHealth in Australia or New Zealand in the last 10 years that rivals the impact of this week’s announcement that NSW Health will go ahead with what have been lingering rumours over the last year and rip out its complex, hugely expensive but very […]

Opinion: Epic costs likely in EMR flip from Cerner

25 November 2022

The cost of flipping NSW Health’s electronic medical record platform from Cerner to Epic could cost up to $1 billion over 10 years, industry experts project. The massive program will represent the largest implementation of any EMR platform in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the largest Epic implementations in the world, covering 220 hospitals […]

NSW Health SDPR: “Funding secured” for delivery of game-changing EMR program

24 November 2022

Funding for the delivery of NSW Health’s massive Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR) program has been secured, eHealth NSW says. The project, which will see the Cerner electronic medical record used in most NSW hospitals replaced with a new system from US vendor Epic, is expected to cost up to $1 billion over the next […]

Barossa Hills Fleurieu rolls out digital pathways for elective surgery patients

24 November 2022

The surgical services team from South Australia’s Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network (BHFLHN) has implemented new digital pathways for elective surgery patients to enhance communication, patient risk assessments and surgery preparation. Using technology from local firm Personify Care, the electronic pathway commences in the surgeon’s rooms and incorporates pre-operative, surgical, post-op management and consumer […]

Smarter hospitals: funding for change management practices in virtual care

24 November 2022

Health Infrastructure NSW and the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University have received funding for the Smarter Hospitals project, which aims to drive research to optimise virtual care technology in health facilities. The project involves funding to pilot a specialised change management method for virtual care integration into health capital works and asset […]

NSW Health SDPR: all pathology systems to be replaced with Epic

23 November 2022

NSW Health has confirmed that the various laboratory information systems used by NSW Health Pathology are set to be replaced by a single instance of Epic’s pathology technology, known as Beaker, as part of the state’s massive single digital patient record (SDPR) project. NSW Health revealed yesterday that it was planning to replace the Cerner […]

NSW Health chooses Epic for statewide single digital patient record

22 November 2022

NSW Health has chosen US EMR vendor Epic for its massive Single Digital Patient Record (SDPR) project, which will unify electronic medical records and pathology information systems across the state. The new system will replace nine instances of the state’s electronic medical record platforms, six patient administration systems, five pathology laboratory information management systems and […]

Pilot of GP access to ACT Health’s new Digital Health Record

21 November 2022

ACT Health will run a small pilot of a portal into its new Digital Health Record (DHR) that will allow general practices to access their patients’ medical records from Canberra Health Services and Calvary Public Hospital Bruce with the patient’s consent. ACT Health says the Epic DHR went live on November 12 with only a […]

MedicalDirector integrates with Cubiko practice reporting solution

21 November 2022

Practice intelligence platform Cubiko has integrated with MedicalDirector’s Pracsoft practice management software and will be available to users from early 2023. Cubiko was launched in 2019 by by data analytics firm Aginic in association with Brisbane general practice Inala Primary Care and brings together over 1000 data points in easy-to-understand dashboards that provide business insights […]

Study launches into LifeCurve app for active and independent ageing

21 November 2022

The Bay of Plenty region has expanded its project using the LifeCurve app, which aims to help older adults stay active and independent, to the rest of New Zealand. The app, which is based on research from the UK’s Newcastle University around age-related functional decline and has been in use in the UK since 2018, […]

International health IT week in review: November 20

20 November 2022

OpenNotes, South Africa’s plans for centralised data, Epic on Google Cloud, Canada’s data exchange problems, NHS England and budget dramas, FDA guidance on medical device cybersecurity, Amazon’s virtual medical clinic, reducing note length on EMRs, has digital health venture funding failed? Knowing what the doctor knows The Harvard Gazette ~ Alvin Powell ~ 15/11/2022 Tom […]

Blog: Second phase of the NIMP takes flight

18 November 2022

There was some very interesting news this week from the Australian Digital Health Agency on progress with its modernisation program for the national digital health infrastructure. We jokingly refer to this as the NIMP, but there is in reality a huge amount of work going on under the bonnet to convert what is pretty much […]

ADHA’s Health API Gateway replacement program hits top gear

17 November 2022

The Australian Digital Health Agency will release the third tranche of application programming interfaces in its Health API Gateway replacement program over the next few weeks, which will see the critical business-to-business bundle of APIs that interact with clinical software upgraded to a modern, web services- and FHIR-based platform. The work has been supported by […]

More hacked Medibank data expected to be released

17 November 2022

The criminal group behind the hack of Medibank’s systems last month is expected to release new rounds of stolen data on Friday, after the health insurer’s representatives reiterated at its annual general meeting this week that it would not pay a ransom. Medibank chairman Mike Wilkins told the AGM that based on advice from cybercrime […]

WA Health to end COVID Care at Home remote monitoring program

16 November 2022

WA Health has called time on its innovative COVID-19 home monitoring program WA COVID Care at Home, which went live in late January and cared for more than 17,000 COVID-positive patients who were at higher risk of serious illness or hospitalisation. The program used technology from Sydney’s CareMonitor to provide a virtual care home monitoring […]

Hayylo integrates with Umps for Support At Home program

16 November 2022

Aged care technology vendors Hayylo and Umps have announced a partnership to integrate their technologies for the new Support at Home reforms, which are due to begin in 2024 and will replace Commonwealth-funded home care packages. The integration will bring together Hayylo’s care communication platform with Umps new Umps Link smart home and personal alarm […]

St John of God implements EpiSoft’s digital IFC and payments process

15 November 2022

The St John of God Health Care hospital group is implementing the latest version of EpiSoft’s online informed financial consent (IFC) and payments process for patients. It is the latest feature addition to EpiSoft’s ‘epi-me’ online patient admissions portal and is integrated with St John of God Health Care’s webPAS patient administration system. St John […]

Sydney Eye Hospital to roll out Q-Flow solution for specialist outpatients

15 November 2022

Sydney and Sydney Eye Hospital has introduced NEXA’s Q-Flow solution to its specialist outpatients’ eye and hand clinics to help improve patient flow and reduce manual administrative practices. The solution has been funded with the help of the Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation and includes self-check in kiosks, Medicare online patient validation and SMS notifications. According […]

WA Health to go 24/7 with telestroke service

14 November 2022

Western Australia’s telestroke service will soon be available around the clock following a successful initial roll out just over a year ago. Plans are now afoot to expand the service to provide 24/7 assessments and a single point of entry for suspected acute stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients who present across the WA […]

Medi-Map achieves eNRMC conformance with Tasmania for aged care facilities

14 November 2022

Medication management solution Medi-Map can now be used as an ePrescribing platform for Tasmanian aged care facilities after it achieved approval for its transitional Electronic National Residential Medication Chart (eNRMC) with the Tasmanian Department of Health for use in aged care facilities. Medi-Map is also working with WA Health to facilitate its approval for the […]

International health IT week in review: November 13

13 November 2022

Apple adds medication tracking to iPhone, Northern Ireland PACS, post-Roe patient privacy, CommonSpirit Health ransom attack, NHS Digital tech innovation framework includes MedicalDirector, remote support for blood pressure, Salesforce launches Patient 360 for Health, public response to telehealth Apple adds medication tracking to iPhone. How will it impact the specialty patient journey HIT Consultant ~ […]

Blog: Medibank hack goes from bad to worse to diabolical

11 November 2022

The news just keeps getting worse following the hack of health insurer Medibank last month, with actual sensitive medical data being released yesterday and today, accompanied by threats that it would just get worse and the Australian Federal Police late this afternoon pinpointing Russian agents as the source of the attack. While AFP commissioner Reece […]

eReferrals and online appointments to modernise outpatient services in Tasmania

11 November 2022

The Tasmanian Department of Health has released a timeline for its ambitious strategy to transform outpatient services in the state, including rolling out an electronic referral system for hospitals over the next six months along with online booking services for patients and enhancements to telehealth and virtual care services. The eReferral system is already in […]

Global Health expands reach in private hospital PAS market

10 November 2022

Melbourne-headquartered Global Health will provide its MasterCare patient administration system, patient portal, data warehouse and integration engine at Acurio Health Group’s new The George Centre private day hospital, currently being built in south-western Sydney. The George Centre will be one of the largest private maternity and paediatric hospitals in Sydney and the only private paediatric […]

Orion Health appoints Carey Campbell as clinical director

10 November 2022

Auckland-headquartered health IT vendor Orion Health has appointed former Southern Cross Healthcare director of nursing Carey Campbell as its clinical director for New Zealand and Australia. Ms Campbell has a long history of working with Orion Health on the implementation of its electronic patient record across the 16 Southern Cross hospitals in New Zealand. Ms […]

Hackers begin releasing stolen Medibank data; scammers get to work

9 November 2022

The hackers who infiltrated Medibank’s IT systems last month have begun releasing data on the dark web following the company’s refusal to pay a ransom. Threats to contact prominent policy holders have come to fruition, with former tennis player and television commentator Todd Woodbridge revealing he had been contacted by scammers demanding he pay bills […]

Central Adelaide to pioneer digital front door for SA

8 November 2022

Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) is looking to establish a digital front door solution to provide a central digital entry point to its services and improve patient experience and the patient journey. The concept of the digital front door is growing in popularity around the world and is described as a patient engagement strategy […]

Townsville HHS to host Qld regional clinical trial centre for teletrial program

8 November 2022

Townsville Hospital and Health Service has been chosen as the lead coordinating centre in Queensland for the Australian Teletrial Program (ATP), which uses digital technology to enable rural, regional and remote clinical trial sites across Australia. Queensland Health has spearheaded the program since its pilot in 2018, which has now received $75 million in funding […]

Eastern Health consolidates 16 billing systems into one enterprise-wide solution

8 November 2022

Melbourne’s Eastern Health has completed its project to streamline multiple billing processes into one enterprise-wide billing solution, replacing 16 different billing systems with PowerHealth’s Power Billing and Revenue Collection (PBRC) platform. Eastern Health has used PowerHealth’s costing product PowerPerformance Manager (PPM) for over 15 years but has now added the billing element. It also rolled […]

PainChek pain app integrates with EMRs through InterSystems’ IRIS for Health

7 November 2022

Australian developed mobile pain assessment app PainChek has entered the electronic medical record market through an integration using InterSystems’ IRIS for Health FHIR-based app development platform. The partnership will see PainChek’s custom-built message formats converted to APIs using the HL7 and FHIR industry standards to allow it to integrate with hospital EMRs, including InterSystems’ TrakCare, […]

Medibank refuses to pay ransom, reveals 9.7m customers may be affected

7 November 2022

Health insurer Medibank will not pay a ransom to the hackers who accessed personal and claims data of its customer base last month, saying there is only a “limited chance” that paying a ransom would ensure the data was returned. In a statement this morning, Australia’s largest health insurer said the names, date of birth, […]

Auckland to roll out touchscreen technology for self-service

7 November 2022

Waitemata’s North Shore Hospital is rolling out touchscreen check-in kiosks for outpatients, joining Christchurch and Auckland City hospitals in implementing the technology. The new kiosk is the first of two planned for North Shore Hospital in the near future and a third is due for installation at Waitakere Hospital, according to Te Whatu Ora – […]

International health IT week in review: November 6

6 November 2022

Virtual primary care popular, wearables not benefiting target uses, Canada launches Meditech-powered HIE, remuneration for virtual consults, SNOMED and LOINC get interoperable, Japan’s slow digital progress, Canada’s Connect Care finally getting there, India’s future spend on health IT Most Americans find virtual primary care effective, appealing mHealth Intelligence ~ Mark Melchionna ~ 02/11/2022 New survey […]

Blog: Virtual emergency models go statewide and nationwide

4 November 2022

Queensland Health joined the bandwagon rolling out virtual emergency department models this week with the announcement that the Virtual ED service operating out of Brisbane’s Metro North HHS for the last year or so is now set to go state-wide. Like many other hospital-based telehealth services, this one has been precipitated by the COVID pandemic […]

Emergency Consult sets up operations centre as service expands to aged care

4 November 2022

New Zealand’s remote 24-hour urgent care service Emergency Consult has set up a new operations centre in Hamilton as its service expands, with over 30 aged care facilities now using the system along with small EDs and rural health services. Emergency Consult was set up by Jenni Falconer, Giles Chanwai and Martyn Harvey in 2020 […]

ACT Health geared up for Epic go-live of Digital Health Record

3 November 2022

ACT Health is set to go live with its territory-wide, Epic-based Digital Health Record (DHR) next weekend, following several years of intense preparation. The $200 million+ system will go live at 45 sites at the same time, including the ACT’s four hospitals, its community health centres, nurse-led walk-in centres and Justice Health, in what has […]

Metro North Health to roll out virtual ED to whole of Queensland

3 November 2022

Brisbane’s Metro North Hospital and Health Service is expanding its Virtual Emergency Department telehealth service to the whole of Queensland. Metro North set up the service at the height of the COVID pandemic and has since been refining the model, allowing patients to receive emergency treatment from home. It has also been available to GPs […]

South Western Sydney rolling out ‘medical neighbourhood’ model of care

2 November 2022

General practices in the South Western Sydney Primary Health Network (PHN) are being invited to take part in its My Care Partners initiative, which will harness digital health solutions such as the region’s iRAD system and NSW Health’s new Lumos solution to enhance care for patients with chronic and complex conditions who are at risk […]

Booking platform 1st Group insists it’s a going concern

2 November 2022

ASX-listed healthcare technology company 1st Group, which markets the MyHealth1st online appointment booking system as well as the Visionflex range of telehealth software and hardware, has told the Australian Securities Exchange that the company remains a going concern following changes to its executive. The company recently announced the departure of long-term managing director and CEO […]

Digital health capability audits for residential aged care facilities

2 November 2022

The Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) is inviting experienced digital health contractors to help assist residential aged care facilities (RACFs) in the region to implement functional telehealth capability. The EOI is one of a number being offered by PHNs around the country to assist RACFs with appropriate telehealth facilities and equipment so residents can […]

Sunrise EMR live across East Gippsland

1 November 2022

East Gippsland’s Bairnsdale Regional Health Service (BRHS) and Bass Coast Health have gone live with the Sunrise electronic medical record from Altera Digital Health in their inpatient wards, following go-lives in their emergency departments last year. The East Gippsland health services joins Latrobe Regional Hospital, West Gippsland Hospital (Warrugal) and Sale Hospital in Central Gippsland […]

NCTS to power centre of excellence for connectivity

1 November 2022

The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has launched a new collaboration with the CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) to create what they say will be a world-leading terminology service and capability for Australia powered by the National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS). The NCTS currently provides terminology services and tools that include an online browser, […]

South-eastern NSW PHN supporting roll out of Inca shared care planning solution

31 October 2022

Coordinare, the primary health network (PHN) for south-eastern NSW, is supporting general practices in the region to implement Precedence Healthcare’s Inca shared health record and care planning solution. Inca, formerly known as cdmNet, is an integrated care platform that enables the patient’s multidisciplinary care team to share care plans. It works with the major practice […]

BrainTrack app for tracking cognitive changes can share data with GPs

31 October 2022

Dementia Australia has launched a consumer mobile app that can help people monitor changes in cognition over time and share the data with their GP. The app includes games that have been adapted from validated cognitive testing and can generate a confidential PDF report of results that can be shared with the person’s GP. BrainTrack […]

International health IT week in review: October 30

30 October 2022

NHS Digital merger with NHS England, Japan ups moves to digital identity, follow-up by telehealth not as good as in-person for ED, virtual care comparable for high blood pressure, YouTube’s validation process for health videos, AI for mental health in text messaging, not-for-profit hopital hack in US continues, medical records on USB stick found in […]

Blog: Medibank, Medlab hacks point to lack of private preparedness

28 October 2022

It is no small irony that in what is purported to be national Cybersecurity Awareness Month, no less than three major hacks have come to light. The Optus attack is the most egregious so far but Medibank’s is fast catching up, not so much due to the extent of the breach but the fumbling and […]

Pathology lab hacked in February with dataset released on dark web

27 October 2022

Australian Clinical Labs subsidiary Medlab Pathology has revealed one of its servers was accessed in a cyber incident in February, with a dataset including 17,500 individual medical records associated with a pathology test uploaded to the dark web. Medlab, which operates predominantly in Sydney, Wollongong, Newcastle and Brisbane, revealed today that it noticed the incident […]

AI-driven telemedicine system to be trialled for eye health screenings in remote communities

26 October 2022

Australian health tech company TeleMedC’s RetinoScan technology is set to be trialled in two rural primary care sites in Western Australia and NSW to try to improve access to eye health screenings and reduce the incidence of preventable blindness. TeleMedC has received a grant from the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) in partnership with the […]

Medibank hack worse than thought with customer database potentially accessed

26 October 2022

Australia’s largest health insurer Medibank today revealed that its investigation into a hacking incident a fortnight ago is significantly worse than first feared, with the as yet unnamed hacking group gaining access not just to the company’s small ahm and international student brands but to its core Medibank Private business, which numbers over four million […]

CareMonitor deployed for northern Adelaide’s VIVA virtual hub

25 October 2022

CareMonitor’s community-based shared care, real time remote patient monitoring and telehealth digital platform has been deployed to manage the Virtual In-home Virtual Assist (VIVA) online platform for the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NAHLN). VIVA went live in June from a purpose-built hub next to Modbury Hospital and allows specialist teams to use real-time information […]

RANZCR 2022: Zed integrates Foxo’s Guest Chat for direct communication

25 October 2022

Medical imaging and report sharing solution vendor Zed Technologies has integrated clinical communication specialist Foxo’s Guest Chat module into its web viewer, aiming to improve communication between primary care specialists and diagnostic imaging providers. Guest Chat allows any Foxo-enabled organisation to share or embed a URL into reports, results and referrals and provide a secure […]

Medibank hack extends to core business customers

25 October 2022

Health insurer Medibank has confirmed that the cyberattack on its systems earlier this month has not just affected its small ahm brand and international student business but its core Medibank business, which covers over four million customers. In a statement today, Medibank announced that the hack includes Medibank customer data, but did not specify if […]

Healthdirect industry offer for online booking vendors to integrate with Service Finder

24 October 2022

Healthdirect Australia has launched a new industry offer aimed at clinical online booking system vendors to integrate with its Service Finder, which is undergoing a significant enhancement to include COVID-19 and flu vaccine appointments. Healthdirect Australia is transitioning its Vaccine Clinic Finder to the Service Finder, so consumers need only use one portal to find […]

Funding secured for wearable device clinical trials, point of care FBE

24 October 2022

Wearable devices for monitoring blood pressure in people with hypertension, wearable sensors to monitor the movement of children with cerebral palsy and wearable technologies that can take data from the medical record of people with type 2 diabetes are being trialled in three new projects funded under the Medical Research Future Fund primary healthcare research […]

ADHA chair Elizabeth Deveny to run CHF

24 October 2022

The current chair of the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA),Elizabeth Deveny, has been named as CEO of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF). Dr Deveny takes over from Leanne Wells, who retired in August after seven years. Dr Deveny, who has PhD on the topic of clinical decision-making from the University of Melbourne, is […]

International health IT week in review: October 23

23 October 2022

How the costs of an EHR install can add up Becker’s Health IT ~ Naomi Diaz ~ 20/10/2022 According to a Health Affairs study, for an average five-physician practice, implementation costs an estimated $162,000, with $85,500 in maintenance expenses during the first year. White House sets sights on new healthcare cybersecurity standards Health IT Security […]

Blog: Faux outrage does no one any service

21 October 2022

A very busy week in health IT kicked off this week at the Digital Health Summit in Sydney, where a concerted effort by the industry to put digital health workforce planning firmly on the agenda over the next two years was revealed. The conference showcased some very impressive progress by NSW Health in particular, which […]

Medibank confirms claims data and personal information stolen by hackers

20 October 2022

Health insurer Medibank has confirmed today that the hack that affected its ahm and international student policy arms last week has in fact resulted in data being stolen – including codes for diagnoses and procedures – despite earlier hopes that the hack had failed. Medibank announced last week that it had noticed unusual activity in […]

Provider Connect Australia to kick off as single source of healthcare provider truth

19 October 2022

The Australian Digital Health Agency’s new Provider Connect Australia (PCA) service will go live with a select number of healthcare organisations across the country on November 1, as part of the initial phase of real world testing. PCA was due to go live in January but the roll out has been delayed by COVID-19, and […]

NSW hopes to roll out patient-reported measures system to primary care

19 October 2022

Health NSW and the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) are working together on a pilot of the state’s Health Outcomes and Patient Experience (HOPE) patient reported measures (PRMs) platform in early adopter sites in the primary care sector. A pilot in up to 30 general practices across three primary health networks (PHNs) is underway, […]

Next-generation AI solution for clinical use in radiology

18 October 2022

Sydney-headquartered medical imaging artificial intelligence specialist annalise.ai has launched a software-as-a-medical device (SaMD) decision-support solution for non-contrast CT brain studies for clinical use. Annalise Enterprise CTB (Annalise CTB) is available in Australia and New Zealand and is designed to be an assistive clinical tool to help radiologists by providing a second pair of eyes for […]

Opinion: Analytics study shows door is open to data-driven care transition

18 October 2022

The subject of healthcare analytics and interoperability has long been fraught in Australia. The complexities and difficulties presented by our federated health system and mix of public and private providers are considerable. So much so that they inspired a huge breakthrough in health data standards – FHIR or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. It’s somewhat ironic, […]

DHS2022: Digital health orgs sign up for workforce capability action planning

17 October 2022

The Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) has partnered with the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) to promote a plan to deliver digital health capability across the health workforce. The capability action plan (CAP) is designed to support Australia’s health workforce to continue to develop the skills needed to deliver the care in an increasingly […]

DHS2022: chairs appointed for digital health expert advisory groups

17 October 2022

The Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) has set up three new expert advisory groups to help inform opinion and policy in digital health, naming the inaugural chairs of each group at the Digital Health Summit 2022 in Sydney today. Former NSW Health director-general and Telstra Health managing director Mary Foley will chair an expert […]

Healthdirect integrates app with My Health Record

17 October 2022

Health information and advice line service Healthdirect has upgraded its mobile app to provide seamless access to the user’s My Health Record. Healthdirect has used the Australian Digital Health Agency’s standardised APIs to connect the app through the My Health Record mobile gateway. It is one of three apps that is authorised to provide users […]

Former MD head Phil Offer joins BestMed

17 October 2022

Former MedicalDirector CEO Phil Offer has been appointed as the new CEO of aged care medication management software vendor BestMed. He takes over from long-term CEO Nass Hijazi, who will join the company’s board as a director. BestMed’s electronic national residential medication chart (eNRMC) technology is used by over 240 residential aged care facilities and […]

International health IT week in review: October 16

16 October 2022

Translational gaps and opportunities for medical wearables in digital health Science Translational Medicine ~ Shuai Xu et al ~ 12/10/2022 We review current digital health technologies and highlight critical gaps to clinical translation and adoption. Mental health trusts still unable to access patient records months after attack Digital Health News ~ Jon Hoeksma ~ 13/10/2022 […]

Blog: Telehealth in residential aged care proving its worth

14 October 2022

The announcement by the South Australian government late last week that it would extend its virtual care service to residential aged care facilities was a welcome one, even if it did come with little information beyond carefully staged PR. SA has probably been the most prominent state, if not the least, in trying to tackle […]

Modeus to roll out electronic medication register for controlled substances across WA Health

13 October 2022

Healthcare software company Modeus has won a contract with the shared services centre for WA’s public health services and hospitals, Health Support Services, to roll out its HS8 controlled medication register application across the WA hospital network. HS8 is a medication management software platform that enables paperless controlled drug administration in all areas of a […]

Northern region hospitals to implement Medtasker mobile communications platform

13 October 2022

The four Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand Northern region districts are rolling out the Medtasker mobile hospital communications platform in a multi-year deal with Telstra Health, which will see legacy paging systems and paper-based task management solutions replaced. Medtasker’s platform will effectively support all critical communications to emergency services as well as implementing its […]

Mater Rockhampton goes live with Charm cancer care software

13 October 2022

Mater Private Hospital in Rockhampton has joined four other Mater hospitals in Queensland in introducing Citadel Health’s Charm oncology information management solution for chemotherapy treatment delivery. The system will form the Rockhampton hospital’s first centralised cancer patient record with its ability to connect every aspect of a cancer patient’s care into one central system. The […]

Fresh faces at HealthCare Software as SNUG Health product line takes shape

12 October 2022

Hobart’s HealthCare Software (HCS) has repositioned its products under the name SNUG Health and appointed a new CEO as it embarks on a rebranding and market growth strategy. HCS is best known for developing the Tasmanian Medicines Formulary and a controlled drug management system that is now used by the majority of health departments in […]

Restructure of consumer medicines phone line following NPS demise

12 October 2022

The Department of Health and Aged Care has issued a tender for a national phone service to connect consumers to registered pharmacists providing evidence-based medicines information and guidance. A national Medicines Line has been operated by Healthdirect in association with NPS MedicineWise for some years, but the government is closing the latter organisation down and […]

RAH applies digital communications platform for informed consent

11 October 2022

Royal Adelaide Hospital’s (RAH) radiation oncology department is using the Personify Care platform to communicate with patients to collect informed consent when beginning treatment. Personify Care’s platform is used by the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) for a number of programs, including most recently a program aimed at enhancing the post-operative recovery of surgical […]

SA Health to roll out virtual emergency service to aged care

10 October 2022

SA Health is expanding its $10 million Virtual Care Service to more than 150 residential aged care facilities in the state, following a pilot in 11 Eldercare facilities over the last six months. The service will enable aged care staff and first responders to have direct access to emergency medical and nursing staff and clinical […]

Changing of the guard as Bartosch steps down from 1st Group

10 October 2022

The CEO and managing director of online appointment booking service 1st Group, Klaus Bartosch, has resigned after 11 years in the role, a few months after the company completed a merger with telehealth hardware and software platform Visionflex. Mr Bartosch was a co-founder of the company, originally known as 1stAvailable, and oversaw its listing on […]

Patient demographic and claiming data uploaded following Pinnacle PHO hack

10 October 2022

Data relating to the use of hospital services, ACC claiming information, and immunisation and screening status for individual patients has been uploaded to the internet following a malicious attack on New Zealand’s Pinnacle Midlands Health Network just over a week ago, the PHO has confirmed. Pinnacle CEO Justin Butcher said the hack, which occurred on […]

International health IT week in review: October 9

9 October 2022

Limits removed on electronic health information, Google Cloud unveils medical imaging product suite, Google and Fitbit launch new cloud analytics tools to help hospitals harness wearables data, telehealth preferred for routine care, duplicate content in EMRs, clinical decision support ONC offers tips on info blocking compliance as October 6 EHI expansion approaches Healthcare IT News […]

Blog: Information blocking in the US suffers a blow with new rules

7 October 2022

A pretty major milestone in patient access to information was reached this week in the United States, where new rules came into effect under its landmark 21st Century Cures Act, first introduced by former president Barack Obama back in 2016. While the main thrust of that act was to reduce the regulatory burden on new […]

Dedalus to introduce Pharmoduct oncology compounding robotics to ANZ

6 October 2022

Global healthcare IT solutions vendor Dedalus is planning to introduce a new robotic oncology compounding system to the Australian and New Zealand markets, aimed at automating the preparation of oncology medications while also integrating with EMRs and specialist oncology prescribing, dispensing and compounding software. Pharmoduct is a TGA- and Medsafe-approved solution for the sterile preparation […]

Genie rolls out integrated Voice dictation app for Gentu amid changing of the guard

5 October 2022

Specialist medical software market leader Genie Solutions has released an integrated dictation solution app called Voice, developed in association with Nuance Communications, to enable specialists to dictate letters directly from their mobile phone. The app is available for iOS and Android users of Genie Solutions’ Gentu cloud-based practice management system and is one of a […]

Evidence for how IT systems can improve medication management in aged care

5 October 2022

Funding has been secured for a new study aimed at providing evidence for how user-friendly IT systems can improve medication management and safety in residential aged care, as well as reducing workloads for aged care staff. The two-year study, Transforming residential aged care through evidence-based informatics, is being led by Macquarie University’s Johanna Westbrook in […]

Queensland Health looking to boost remote patient monitoring capability

5 October 2022

Queensland Health has launched a market research exercise to investigate options for remote patient monitoring as it looks to build on virtual care solutions implemented during the pandemic. It has issued a request for information (RFI) asking for solution providers to outline their capabilities and how these may ally with the virtual care solutions introduced […]

Victoria, SA promise massive expansion of maternity and children’s health

5 October 2022

The Victorian and South Australian state governments are promising massive expansions in maternity hospital care, including an investment in the existing Parkville precinct that will see a $2-$2.5 billion upgrade to the Royal Melbourne and the Royal Women’s Hospital, and the SA government promising a brand new Women’s and Children’s Hospital at a cost of […]

Cyberattack on Pinnacle Midlands PHO confirmed

4 October 2022

New Zealand primary health organisation (PHO) Pinnacle Midlands Health Network was hit by a cyberattack last week, with some data including commercial and personal details potentially exfiltrated. The PHO mainly provides operational support to about 80 primary healthcare providers in the Taranaki, Rotorua, Taupō-Tūrangi, Thames-Coromandel and Waikato regions, but it also owns some general practices […]

Coviu launches audio capability and MDTs for a phone-based front door

3 October 2022

Australian telehealth platform Coviu has added integrated phone-based telehealth capabilities to its offering, along with new features for multidisciplinary team meetings and remote patient monitoring integrations. While web-based video consultations have long been the company’s bread and butter, particularly for allied health and specialist clinicians, it still remains the fact that more than 90 per […]

International health IT week in review: October 2

2 October 2022

Oracle promises to revamp Cerner EMR for US VA, patient empowerment through online access to health records, Meaningful Use improved care quality and mortality rates, virtual hospitals at home, Rods & Cones smart glasses for tele-proctoring, virtual primary care taking off in US, digitisation of healthcare in India Oracle plans to ‘rewrite’ VA’s Cerner EHR […]

Secure messaging interoperability spotted in the wild

30 September 2022

The rise of digital health in the time of the pandemic was given yet another boost this week with news from Australia’s national health advice service Healthdirect that it had managed to wrangle quite a few competing technologies and technology vendors into providing a service for GPs in four states to alert them that a […]

Interoperable secure messaging for COVID-19 antiviral notifications to GPs

28 September 2022

Healthdirect Australia’s National Coronavirus Helpline secure messaging service for COVID-19 antiviral treatment eligibility has sent more than 20,000 notifications to GPs and GP respiratory clinics since it began in NSW in May. The service is using existing secure messaging systems as well as an innovative solution jointly designed and built by Telstra Health that uses […]

RSM partners with CMH to offer Clinimetrix practice analytics tool to medical division

28 September 2022

Audit, tax and consulting services firm RSM Australia has partnered with Sydney’s CMH Practice Management to offer the Clinimetrix medical intelligence platform to practices using RSM’s professional services. CMH has developed Clinimetrix as an analytics tool that combines both financial and clinical metrics to help medical practices manage risk and generate more income. Clinimetrix is […]

Pfizer completes $179m purchase of ResApp Health

27 September 2022

Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has finalised its $179 million takeover of Brisbane-based, ASX-listed respiratory technology company ResApp Health. Pfizer announced in April that it wanted to buy ResApp, a spin-out from the University of Queensland that has developed a smartphone app for recording the diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases based on cough analysis. Diseases […]

Mercy Health implements 3M’s CDI tool, establishes CDI specialist role

27 September 2022

Melbourne private hospital and health provider Mercy Health has gone live with 3M’s cloud-based clinical documentation integrity (CDI) workflow tool M*Modal CDI Collaborate, and has also set up a new CDI specialist role within the organisation. CDI is a workflow process that helps to ensure medical record data is accurate and allows hospitals to focus […]

NSW Health’s virtual care strategy uncovered at SFT-22 in Brisbane

26 September 2022

The lessons learned from the development of NSW Health’s virtual care strategy will be discussed at the 22nd annual Successes and Failures in Telehealth Conference (SFT-22) being held in Brisbane in November. A range of themed sessions are planned, including the use of telehealth for the treatment of chronic disease, remote patient monitoring, supporting patients […]

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