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Melbourne's Sunshine Private Hospital to implement Telstra Health EMR
The $140 million Sunshine Private Hospital will go live with Telstra Health’s Kyra Clinical electronic medical record when it opens its doors in Melbourne’s west next year.
Australian eHealth
DHCRC looking into virtual care deployments in remote NT communities
The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) has launched a new, multi-million dollar project looking at how virtual health technologies are best deployed in…
Australian eHealth
Brisbane Metro North phasing out fax for eReferrals
Brisbane’s Metro North Hospital and Health Service’s Central Patient Intake Unit (CPIU) is phasing out fax for all communications and is no longer accepting faxed…
Australian eHealth
COVIDSafe app finally put out of its misery amid cost blowout claims
The new Australian government has officially called a halt to the COVIDSafe contact tracing app amid claims the total cost has risen to over $21 million.
Australian eHealth
Accenture wins three-year, $100m extension as infrastructure operator for MyHR
Consulting firm Accenture has been awarded a $100m, three-year extension to its contract with the Australian Digital Health Agency to continue as the national…
Australian eHealthSt Vincent’s @ Home service expands into palliative care
Sydney’s St Vincent's @ Home service will be expanded to provide palliative care ‘home in the hospital’, providing support for its community palliative care team by…
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- ACT budget: ACT to invest $50m in early support for Digital Health Record
- Werribee Mercy rolls out myBeepr for clinical communication and photography
- 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
- Monash trialling pharmacy virtual clinic for blood pressure medication
- 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
- Surgical ‘PreHab’ program uses digital pathways for better post-op recovery
- SAAS rolling out rugged devices for ambulance fleet
- CSIRO deploys cloud-based tool for early warning of new COVID-19 variants
- Alfred Health to upgrade clinical costing software from PowerHealth
- Dedalus sets sights on ambulance and emergency with Amphi Systems
- WA Health to replace legacy SharePoint-based solution with Smart Referrals WA
- No go for MBS-funded long phone consults as govt rejects lobbying
- eHealth NSW live with Engage Outpatients eReferrals program
- WA’s child and adolescent health service looking for diabetes app
- 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
- Radiology referral set released to enhance digital imaging interoperability
- St Vincent’s partners with Sydney Neuroimaging for AI solutions
- 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
- 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
- Northern Health looking for RIS PACS for new imaging service
- Health extends eScript subsidy, adds natural disasters to telehealth exemption
- 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 sets out bold strategy for statewide digital health transformation
- Western Sydney to set up 12 urgent care service centres
- IBD tools added to medCompanion app
- ADHA to set up SHA-2 readiness register
- Clinicians, health unions call for RIVeR fix in Far North Queensland
- Rules mandating vaccination reporting on AIR pass Parliament
- Ambulance Tasmania data breach referred to police
- 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
- MMEx exchanges fully conformant eScript token for VAHS patient
- Budget 2020: Extra funds for ongoing telehealth, national device tracking system
- Global Health targets wearables and remote device integrations for Lifecard PHR
- 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
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- 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
- eHealth Queensland CEO Richard Ashby resigns, HBCIS replacement on hold
- Cost of Qld ieMR underestimated and benefits slow, but positive overall: audit
- Queensland issues restricted tender for $210m+ PAS replacement
- Opt-out rate for My Health Record just over three per cent: ADHA
- Reports of long wait, SSO breakdown on first day of My Health Record opt out
- 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
- 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
- RACGP launches minimum functionality project with software vendors
- 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
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- NT Health CIO Stephen Moo resigns under a cloud
- Sunquest building prototype for $50m+ Queensland pathology system
- Prescription for digital health: guide to health apps for general practices
- Primary gears up for digital investment despite huge write-down
- COAG gives the green light to ambitious five-year digital health strategy
- 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'
- Private equity firm takes majority stake in Genie Solutions
- NSW Health begins sending pathology reports to My Health Record
- 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
- Mobility, portals and device integration big wins in Epic install at RCH
- eHealth systems to underpin $361 million Qld specialist outpatients strategy
- 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
- 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
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- Spok delivering radiology results directly to St George clinicians' smartphones
- Eligibility for ePIP will require uploads to My Health Record
- 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
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- Tunstall releases tracking app for mobile nurse safety
- RACGP wants ePIP meaningful use targets dumped
- Govt announces eHealth taskforce with real health IT experience
- Appointuit acquired by patient flow specialist Jayex Healthcare
- ePIP set to be tied to PCEHR meaningful use
- Queensland sees big increase in outpatient services through telehealth
- Queensland launches 20-year, $1.26 billion health ICT strategy
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