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2022
151 stories- Melbourne's Sunshine Private Hospital to implement Telstra Health EMR
- DHCRC looking into virtual care deployments in remote NT communities
- Brisbane Metro North phasing out fax for eReferrals
- Heritage Care rolls out SleepSensor tech at new Northcote facility
- COVIDSafe app finally put out of its misery amid cost blowout claims
- Technology key to meaningful transformation of aged care: RMIT-CISCO lab
- Accenture wins three-year, $100m extension as infrastructure operator for MyHR
- Long COVID a perfect example for NZ Telehealth’s PACE model
- Resident management systems a resource for tracking adverse events: study
- Oracle's Cerner rebranding exercise gathers momentum
- St Vincent’s @ Home service expands into palliative care
- Sydney LHD trialling Inca for mental health shared care planning
- Global Health expands Vic community health footprint with Latrobe contract
- ACT budget: ACT to invest $50m in early support for Digital Health Record
- Werribee Mercy rolls out myBeepr for clinical communication and photography
- Virtual reality app can help people oVRcome common phobias
- Rapid roll-out for rural telehealth services to ease pressures on rural practices
- Text2vax initiative to remind disability support recipients of vax and antivirals
- Hunter PHN rolls out telehealth bundle to RACFs via grants for digital health upgrades
- Everything ageing is new again
- Coviu adds phone, group therapies and MDT meetings to telehealth platform
- The COVID effect: ADHA says pandemic behind increase in MyHR use
- Feds to run a user audit of myGov to improve government services
- Barwon Health to roll out community EMR using Salesforce Health Cloud
- Personify Care platform for antenatal care POPN at Northern Adelaide
- VVED to use MediRecords for ePrescribing with PAS integration on the cards
- Gippsland to pilot project improving discharge summary quality
- MedAdvisor to buy Pharmacy Guild’s eHealth subsidiary GuildLink
- Pulse+IT launches aged, community and disability care technology edition
- Telehealth tussle still a toss up but is all hell about to break loose in NSW?
- Monash trialling pharmacy virtual clinic for blood pressure medication
- Medibank Health Solutions wins WA Head to Health contract
- UnifyHealth program supports telehealth consultations for high-needs groups
- Northern Health to expand virtual ED to nursing homes and COVID care pathways
- Global Health adds Yarram to Vic hospital and community health roll-out
- Interoperable diagnostic imaging platform via AdvaHealth/Mach7 partnership
- Feds remain reluctant to roll back restrictions on long telephone consults
- Six reasons to be optimistic that IT can help aged care reform
- Waikato to implement Provation iPro anaesthesia solution to replace paper systems
- Surgical ‘PreHab’ program uses digital pathways for better post-op recovery
- SAAS rolling out rugged devices for ambulance fleet
- ITAC 2022: DoHAC to begin consultations on aged care data strategy
- ITAC 2022: DoHAC using Salesforce for new client and provider management systems
- ITAC 2022: Validitron digital sandbox live to evaluate aged care IT systems
- ITAC 2022: NSW building patient app to make patients the centre of healthcare
- ITAC 2022: Paper still a problem in residential aged care
- Medibank to pilot telepsychology service with Myhealth and Medinet
- Progress on eReferrals, early stages for electronic DI requesting
- CSIRO deploys cloud-based tool for early warning of new COVID-19 variants
- Alfred Health to upgrade clinical costing software from PowerHealth
- Lenexa to deploy pressure injury prevention tech to aged care facilities
- Dedalus sets sights on ambulance and emergency with Amphi Systems
- WA Health to replace legacy SharePoint-based solution with Smart Referrals WA
- The tide is high and it’s moving on
- ITAC 2022: pivotal year for digital health in aged care
- No go for MBS-funded long phone consults as govt rejects lobbying
- eHealth NSW live with Engage Outpatients eReferrals program
- Volpara partners with Microsoft to identify potential arteriosclerosis in women
- DoH hopes to fast track adoption of aged care medication charts
- WA’s child and adolescent health service looking for diabetes app
- eReferrals, EMRs and the interminable telehealth saga
- Doctors’ groups lobby for yet another extension to MBS telehealth changes
- AI-based digital health platform being developed for genetic counselling
- Qld budget 2022-23: $300m for continued roll-out of Cerner ieMR
- NSW budget 2022-23: Focus on workforce with funds for virtual ambulance
- Services Australia allows BP users a grace period for Medicare web services
- Monash Health axes the fax for specialist referrals
- Fantasy or reality: Oracle’s plans for Cerner
- Radiology referral set released to enhance digital imaging interoperability
- Radiology referral set released to enhance digital imaging interoperability
- St Vincent’s partners with Sydney Neuroimaging for AI solutions
- Android app for task allocation in health and aged care facilities
- Adherence apps can reduce the risk of asthma attacks: study
- Sydney Children’s redevelopment to feature paediatric virtual care centre
- Patient experience of telehealth surveyed
- PHNs make the move to Primary Sense pop health tool
- My Health Record: 10 years, no progress, no news
- Harris delivers expanded maternity software suite with BOS purchase
- Digital referral service for people with complex mental health issues
- Apple to add medications app to Apple Watch and iPhone
- Smartphone-based intervention for suicidal ideation in young people
- Northern Health looking for RIS PACS for new imaging service
- Fujifilm to distribute Annalise AI decision support for chest X-ray
- Health extends eScript subsidy, adds natural disasters to telehealth exemption
- New gov, new ministers, new name: same old story?
- Northern Health rolls out virtual emergency department statewide
- Global Health signs up private hospitals for PAS and EMR
- Victoria rolling out iCOPE perinatal mental health screening tool
- Technology pilot to better connect veterans to services and support
- Opinion: Tasmania’s health strategy needs to look further afield
- Wavelink to distribute Imprivata’s medical device access solution in ANZ
- WA rolls out Manage My Care app for outpatient appointments and referrals
- SafeScript NSW now available statewide
- Tasmania puts money where its mouth is
- Tasmania sets out bold strategy for statewide digital health transformation
- Western Sydney to set up 12 urgent care service centres
- Sigma Healthcare signs long-term deal for Corum’s PharmX
- Online tool for COVID-19 antiviral treatments
- IBD tools added to medCompanion app
- Celo and Core Schedule join forces
- Aged care software vendors get together to pitch consortium solutions
- Election 2022: sports rorts, car porks and many snouts in the trough
- NZ budget: funds for Hira, Dunedin Hospital, digital and data infrastructure
- Hayylo signs up disability services provider SensesWA for communications app
- Funds flow for aged care software vendors for MyHR interoperability
- Local IT firms step up for JP2060
- First aged care provider to roll out Smarter Safer Homes technology
- Medtech launches integrated platform for online payments by link
- Health not buying MSIA’s eScript complaints
- Guidelines for My Health Record to improve ‘dismal’ uptake in aged care
- Aged Care Data Compare project to trial with commercial software provider
- This election, no one is mentioning the M word
- Smart software for pressure injury prevention approved for NZ use
- Pfizer’s play for ResApp a sign of the times
- Two players in controlled drug management software market to join forces
- 10-year primary care plan puts a lie to universal telehealth claims
- Bendigo Health trialling sensor-based pressure injury management solution
- HealthSoft and Valentia join forces with Whānau Tahi to work on better health outcomes
- Bethanie signs on with InteliCare for smart home proof of concept
- BAU budget sets the scene for an aged and health care election
- Telstra Health launches app for aged care at the resident’s side
- Waitematā DHB to roll out Pinga for online outpatient appointment bookings
- MoH to add breast cancer screening program to National Screening Solution
- Govt to fund on-site pharmacists in RACFs to complement digital meds management
- COVID-19 the acme of ‘there’s an app for that’
- NZ to phase out requirement for My Vaccine Pass, QR code scanning
- Hills gives it another go at health
- Rhapsody owner to merge with EMPI specialist NextGate
- MedAdvisor enters NZ market with Green Cross Health deal
- MoH promises improvements to Covid clinical care module
- Flood disaster should be where My Health Record shines
- Global Health launches Connect app for clinicians on the go
- Allscripts joins sales of the century
- Health Teams to launch ResAppDx on aged care telehealth platform
- PHOs roll out after-hours telehealth services for lower North Island
- ManageMyHealth releases COVID-19 diary for patients and providers
- Virtual is good, but we still hold a candle for face to face
- Changing of the guard at Telstra Health as digital health summit gets going
- Aged care COVID-19 support portal launched as minister comes under fire
- NZ rolls out digital solutions for self-management of Omicron in the community
- Mercy Hospital rolls out Rauland patient engagement platform
- RACGP view on telehealth is self-serving at best
- Northern region to replace legacy Jade software with contemporary community solution
- Symbion and ProPharma sign up again with Corum for PharmX
- Paper route dropped in favour of eReferrals
- 6DHBs looking for eReferral and intelligent scheduling solution
- Telstra Health rolls out virtual care technologies for Adelaide home care services
- Remotely monitoring the Omicron wave
- Third Age to roll out Celo in advance of expected Omicron outbreak
- “Permanent” telehealth just a laundry load of nonsense
- CareMonitor powers Canberra’s Head to Health digital platform
2021
47 stories- Heading into the holidays, health sector goes heavy on the hyperbole
- The 2021 New Zealand eHealth year in review
- After a decade on FHIR, where are we at?
- Tech for COVID care in the community is there, but where is the money?
- HIE for Victoria as it moves on information sharing
- Hopes for secure messaging interoperability meet reality
- Telehealth’s primary care use case side-swiped by danger money
- FHIR storm still smoulders as connectathon looms
- ADHA’s aged care program of work responds to Royal Commission recommendations
- Victoria’s bumpy path to a digital health roadmap
- Aged care transfer of care summary in MyHR scheduled for 2023
- FHIR storm erupts over scary vulnerabilities in third-party apps
- FHIR storm erupts over scary vulnerabilities in third-party apps
- My Health Record and the confessions of a doctor dodger
- Tele-examination service for aged care trialled in Canberra
- MSIA on the warpath as Genie is let out of the bottle
- Australian digital health continues to reinvent the wheel
- DB Results working with Lenexa on pressure injury prevention solution
- Does NSW get a pass on vaccine passports?
- Official solutions a bit late to the vax party
- Aged care technology group to roll out personal emergency response devices
- Vaccine passports on the near horizon as DIY booking sites ramp up
- Light shed on the black pen of doom
- Simple Retail’s Aquarius adds automatic link to AIR in the Breeze
- 13 years later, we’re still thinking about tomorrow
- Movers and shakers in a time of crisis
- ADHA to set up SHA-2 readiness register
- Telstra Health’s big MedicalDirector buy
- When government digital systems work, they can work well
- Yes Minister, your app is a dud
- Health funds adopt Apple Wallet for HICAPS tap and claim
- Bubble bursts behind the ring of steel
- Pandemic ripe for surveying patient experience
- NSW Health’s vaccination booking system is broken
- Chemist Warehouse goes digital for receipts with NAB and Slyp
- Health IT still very much a WIP
- Minfos rolls out vaccine appointment interface for pharmacy vax
- Shock! Practical solutions offered for long-term problems
- A RIVeR runs through it
- Clinicians, health unions call for RIVeR fix in Far North Queensland
- HotDoc hot to trot for Victoria
- Waikato’s woes continue into another week
- Commonwealth Bank buys online directory and booking service Whitecoat
- Move to NZ national health service will deliver on technology promise: Little
- Real-time monitoring of aged care residents while they sleep
- Rules mandating vaccination reporting on AIR pass Parliament
- Ambulance Tasmania data breach referred to police
2020
17 stories- Medtech launches FHIR-enabled interoperability program for third-party apps
- DTA to add Herald Bluetooth protocol to COVIDSafe app
- Digital Health Institute Summit: 2020 state of the EMR nation
- COVIDSafe app criticised for high cost, low effectiveness
- A tale of two technologies
- MMEx exchanges fully conformant eScript token for VAHS patient
- Budget 2020: Extra funds for ongoing telehealth, national device tracking system
- Digital tool for monitoring alcohol use disorders under evaluation
- Medibank extends extras cover for allied virtual health indefinitely
- Global Health targets wearables and remote device integrations for Lifecard PHR
- COVID-19 sees big boost to prostate physiotherapy by telehealth
- Zedmed to release eScript functionality in v32 with live tests in progress
- RPA ramps up virtual hospital service for COVID-19
- COVID-19 resources: hospitals and health services
- Open source approach for patients arriving at the clinic with Clinic Arrivals
- Technology resources for COVID-19
- Highly enjoyable digital devices also improve mobility in rehab patients: study
2019
13 stories- Victorian hospital cyber attack thought to involve Ryuk ransomware
- Victorian hospitals quarantine IT systems after ransomware attack
- Queensland passes laws to enable real-time prescription monitoring
- HIC 2019: Royal Children's reaping the benefits from its big bang theory
- ACCC takes HealthEngine to court over review manipulation
- Local GPs tell of communication breakdown with Northern Beaches Hospital
- Sullivan Nicolaides now ‘seamlessly’ uploading pathology reports to MyHR
- HISA and ACHI hope to join forces as health informatics peak body
- Opinion: Secure messaging interoperability is more than a slogan
- National-scale secure messaging in sight as ADHA funds software upgrades
- HISA's call to action for allied health professionals and digital health
- Oculo live with platform for diabetic eye screening, integrating with Topcon
- eHealth Queensland CEO Richard Ashby resigns, HBCIS replacement on hold
2018
26 stories- Cost of Qld ieMR underestimated and benefits slow, but positive overall: audit
- MedAdvisor sets up hub for patient engagement, signs JV for Asian expansion
- 6CPA MedsCheck follow-up claims now available in GuildCare NG
- GuildLink partners with Perx for Parkinson’s medication management
- Queensland issues restricted tender for $210m+ PAS replacement
- Global Health rolls out MasterCare for Windana data reporting
- Best Practice launches v6 of Bp Allied with improved private health claiming
- Opt-out rate for My Health Record just over three per cent: ADHA
- GuildLink developing free medication app for Priceline
- GuildLink integrates with AIR for registered pharmacies
- Corum gears up for commercial launch of Clear Dispense
- Reports of long wait, SSO breakdown on first day of My Health Record opt out
- SwanCare adopting facial recognition app for people with dementia and pain
- Deloitte wins contract for design phase of NZ national screening solution
- HealthEngine supplying patient data for targeted advertising: report
- Breakthrough for secure messaging following successful proof of concept trials
- Victoria to fund $124m Epic roll-out at Parkville precinct
- MediRecords wins Queensland Health PMS replacement project
- Physios reducing claims through telehealth and early intervention
- ADHA to tick off big-ticket items in the next four years
- Red and purple and blue and green: collaborative to digitise baby health books
- MedAdvisor explores hospital admission and discharge as revenue rises
- Telstra Health launches My Chooser website for NDIS community
- RACGP launches minimum functionality project with software vendors
- Automated dispensary distributor Dose Innovations enters administration
- Lysn ups stakes with online psych consultation platform
2017
28 stories- Big guns join Sonic in signing up to My Health Record
- Fred IT wins contract to build Victoria's SafeScript RTPM system
- ReferralNet and Argus achieve two-way interoperable secure messaging
- MedAdvisor to customise app for TerryWhite Chemmart
- Can the Argonauts sail to the rescue of the “doomed” My Health Record?
- Confused signals over shared electronic discharge medicines list trial
- NT Health CIO Stephen Moo resigns under a cloud
- Sunquest building prototype for $50m+ Queensland pathology system
- Fred adds AusDI medicines information to NXT cloud solution
- Prescription for digital health: guide to health apps for general practices
- Best Practice releases Bp Allied v5 with Medicare Online, Tyro integration
- Primary gears up for digital investment despite huge write-down
- Outcomes v outputs: Windana's new approach to measuring effectiveness
- COAG gives the green light to ambitious five-year digital health strategy
- Single sign-on with single click to access eMIMSCloud in Fred NXT
- Queensland gives GPs online access to hospital records through The Viewer
- Telstra Health now a licensed portal operator for My Health Record
- InterSystems wins $259 million NT clinical systems tender
- eHealth NSW secures $536m over eight years for digital health 'revolution'
- DoseMe sets up US offices, releases solution for US market
- Private equity firm takes majority stake in Genie Solutions
- NSW Health begins sending pathology reports to My Health Record
- Orion recommits to profitability target, R&D amid share price slump
- Guild plugs MedsASSIST back in
- Queensland launches 10-year vision for digital health in the Sunny State
- MediTracker promises to do what MyHR hasn't and put GP record in patient's hand
- Mobile access to My Health Record now live through Healthi app
- Queensland's digital hospital roll-outs blow their budgets
2016
18 stories- Mobility, portals and device integration big wins in Epic install at RCH
- Red alert over IBM's build of the NZ National Infrastructure Platform
- eHealth systems to underpin $361 million Qld specialist outpatients strategy
- Medibank Health Solutions to be sold off: report
- Opinion: Bridging the gap between eHealth vision and current realities
- Call for GP clinical software to be accredited and mapped to SNOMED
- Plans for national roll-out of real-time prescription monitoring in disarray
- Telstra Health wins $178.3m contract to build cancer screening register
- CSIRO study shows massive return on investment for at-home telemonitoring
- SCC wins $42m laboratory information system replacement for PathWest
- Konnekt ready to go live with one press connection through videophone
- Study to build evidence base for improved pathology test reporting
- Health firmly in the long-term category as Telstra aims for growth
- Medicare systems taskforce head only in the job for a month
- Hospital clinicians set to trial mobile app for My Health Record
- Bug that infected Royal Melbourne Hospital is a Qbot worm
- Spok delivering radiology results directly to St George clinicians' smartphones
- Eligibility for ePIP will require uploads to My Health Record
2015
31 stories- Tunstall wraps update of Find-Me Watch in time for Christmas
- Paul Carr retires as CEO of Genie Solutions
- UTS set to shine in digital health and analytics
- Telstra Health building the bridge that will take telehealth mainstream
- Rescheduling OTC codeine could cost $316m a year: Guild
- Tunstall releases tracking app for mobile nurse safety
- RACGP wants ePIP meaningful use targets dumped
- Govt announces eHealth taskforce with real health IT experience
- Crowdfunding for CBT-based smartphone app goes down to the wire
- Appointuit acquired by patient flow specialist Jayex Healthcare
- ePIP set to be tied to PCEHR meaningful use
- DSS gears up for data exchange amid criticism of My Aged Care
- Queensland sees big increase in outpatient services through telehealth
- Malaysia and Thailand take on Singapore for high-tech medical crown
- Queensland launches 20-year, $1.26 billion health ICT strategy
- Telstra Health wins hospital deals in Malaysia and Thailand
- Whanau Tahi buys HSAGlobal to close loop in integrated care
- Development of health IT an “unyielding principle” for China
- EMR promotes entrepreneurship and innovation in India
- VC funding in healthcare IT surpasses $1.2 billion in Q2 2015
- Emerging Systems to integrate Charm into EHS
- Contingency plans for EPAS and ESMI at new Royal Adelaide
- Rapid growth predicted for mHealth in Asia Pacific
- Snapshot: Practo
- The impact of restricted-data flows on China's digital healthcare solutions
- Leecare to go live with finance, meds management in Singapore
- Pulse+IT launches Asia Pacific edition
- Using IT to help solve Singapore's biggest healthcare challenges
- EMRs still hard to use but becoming more routine: survey
- Orion Health announces $61m loss on top of revenue growth
- Orion Health expands its footprint in the Philippines