August 12, 2019
HealthEngine has made bad mistakes and mishandled its response to its patient data handling crisis, but the timing of the ACCC action against the company and the tone of its attack feel very convenient
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July 4, 2019
Wild Health Summit No 5 will be in Melbourne on December 4 and feature a co streaming healthcare cloud bootcamp for all the latest on cloud in Australia for CIOs, CTOs and other relevant CXOs
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August 9, 2019
Although well intentioned, the new PIP QI regime exposes a federal government that is underestimating the massive damage that could be done to the well being of their frontline healthcare troops in general practice and to trust in the system by a hastily cobbled together idea to move faster towards outcomes based care
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August 9, 2019
Pathology giants, Sullivan Nicolaides (SNP), are now routinely uploading diagnostic test reports to patients’ My Health Record (MHR). The size and scale of the SNP set up marks an important new, and long promised, information source for the centralised patient record.
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August 9, 2019
In part 3 of neat start ups set to go places we look at one of the leading plays attempting to digitise all real time payments within the health ecosystem
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July 19, 2019
If you’re interested in the gory detail here is the near full video of the ehealth data sharing standards and governance debate from last month’s Wild Health Summit in Sydney.
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July 19, 2019
In part 2 of our ‘neat start ups’ series, we look at DermEngine, a simple application of AI and cloud based technology that might transform how we assess and treat skin cancer
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July 19, 2019
Angst over the need for Australia to develop and introduce suitable governance and standards for the delivery of ehealth products and data sharing might be misplaced. The market, led by powerful government procurement and commissioning trends, might be informally getting the job done anyway.
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July 19, 2019
Migration from not so interoperable and older closed architectures to ones which are more flexible, open, web based and interoperable, may no longer be a matter of waiting things out to see how the market pans out. If some vendors don’t start evolving their products in earnest now, they may not make it to the other side.
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June 28, 2019
If Matiu Bush’s One Good Street initiative could scale, and it looks like it could, it’s simple but brilliant logic, could end up having an ROI for our health system that would leave your average digital health investment in an EMR, PAS, or a publically funded universal health record, in its dust. But can a socially responsible community first led initiative survive and scale in our healthcare system?
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