April 16, 2019
The thin EMR line: profit and patient and doctor well being
When do we cross the line where EMRs have an ROI for patient and doctor well being, as well as that of the bottom line of providers
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April 16, 2019
April 16, 2019
Secure messaging’s existential crisis
If the various key stakeholders in secure messaging really walked the talk on this vital part of healthcare interoperability in Australia, why do we have virtually no progress in the last decade? Something fundamental is still wrong.
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April 16, 2019
Recruiting doctors to the da…ta side
Of the many roadblocks involved in unleashing the potential of digital health to transform healthcare, a key one is clinician buy-in. What if more doctors with a creative bent were attracted to a career in health informatics?
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April 16, 2019
Slowly slowly, catch a health transformation monkey
Many potential pitfalls in the transformation of a health system are avoidable, provided they are recognised early. Australia needs to proceed incrementally, learning as we go and tolerating error.
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April 17, 2019
The future of ‘ultra cheap’ medicine
Small, portable ultrasound machines can fast-track diagnosis and are changing the face of emergency medicine, experts say.
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April 17, 2019
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March 21, 2019
How does Australian interoperability become reality?
How do we take our current and somewhat vaguely expressed desire for improvement in interoperability in Australia, and turn it into something real? Fast Interoperability Healthcare Resource (FHIR) founder, Grahame Grieve, has some ideas.
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March 28, 2019
Prising the secure messaging limpet from its rock
The journey of sorting out securing messaging in Australia is starting to feel a little like groundhog day
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March 28, 2019
Babel fish, FHIR and general practitioners
EMRs, the MHR, interoperability, the patient-centric imperative? Digital health has so far promised big and delivered little, especially at the coalface of health, general practice.
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February 8, 2019
Why aren’t cloud based patient management systems taking?
Have the rumours of the death of desktop PMS for GPs and specialists, in the wake of ‘the cloud’,been greatly exaggerated? The recent troubles at major PMS vendor Medical Director, and among some of the other early cloud PMS contenders, suggest that cloud was never going to be as easy as first thought.
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