The Future of Health is Wild
The exciting, the strange and the the controversial of health tech
5 Technologies Bringing Healthcare into the Future
If you think you’ve got a bad case of the travel bug, get this: Dr. John Halamka travels 400,000 miles a year. That’s equivalent to fully circling the globe 16 times.
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Health’s digital transformation carpet baggers
Healthcare is resisting digital transformation in a manner that people should think about much more carefully. Here’s why
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Patient management on the cloud
The cloud and mobile make your next look at upgrading your patient management system a potentially game-changing decision
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To Be a Machine
Spend enough time in the tech infosphere and you’ll find that there’s no shortage of confidence in the ability of technology to make us better as humans.
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MHR senate enquiry by numbers
Last week’s MHR senate inquiry spent a lot of time trying to understand what some of the numbers meant. There were so many numbers in such confusing context you got the feeling the ADHA apparatchiks…
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Five things I like about MHR
The MHR isn’t everyone’s favourite government project at the moment, but there are some reasons to be cheerful.
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Digital healthcare’s Game of Thrones
Doctors, particularly GPs, are at the epicentre of our evolving digital health landscape. But will they be gatekeepers or pawns in an evolving Game of Thrones around control of information and data distribution in the sector?
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I couldn’t afford an EMR so I bought a robot
Something is going wrong when a manager running a major Australian hospital information systems looks at buying a hospital-wide electronic medical records (EMR) system then decides instead to buy a surgical robot for one of their…
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Brexting: smartphone addiction & babies
In a now-famous experiment in the 1970s, mothers were asked to sit across from their seated infants, but instead of saying "hello", smiling or cooing, the mothers were told to remain expressionless and unresponsive.
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PMS cloud dilemma for GPs
A couple of months ago the announcement that patient cloud management system start-up MediRecords had won the contract to replace the PMS of visiting doctors in Queensland Health who also practise privately, seemed to pass…
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MHR: It’s a matter of trust
“All humans have three lives: public, private and secret.” – Gabriel Garcia Marques
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Why a country GP is opting out of MHR
The issue of the MyHealthRecord has been troubling me. I lack the eloquence to express my concerns sometimes, so please bear with me.
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Self driving cars, doctors, moose & EMRs
Drivers are distracted klutzes and computers could obviously do better. Self-driving cars will make all of us safer on the road.
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Why telehealth still has a long way to go
Seven years after specialists were granted rebates for remote telehealth consultations, rural GPs hope their time has finally arrived to break the access barrier for patients in the bush.
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Getting off health databases not easy
Since the period for opting out of My Health Record began on July 16, experts in health, privacy and IT have raised concerns about the security and privacy protections of the system, and the legislation…
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10 awkward questions about the MHR
The MHR opt out launched on Monday to a raft of consumer media interviews which reveal a disturbing lack of understanding of some key issues underlying the project.
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Mental health apps off piste
The messages embedded in popular mental health apps may be alienating and burdening people experiencing significant psychological difficulties, while medicalising the normal ups and downs of life, researchers say.
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