
The loss of the three top managers at the ADHA in a matter of weeks has left people wondering about where the agency goes from here
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The NOA audit clearance of the MHR is a lot more worrying than it just being misunderstood as the MHR project is working
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Last days to get Wild Health Summit No 5 Early Bird rates which are 30% off final price
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We've got the whole EHR dilemma ass up according to US physician and tech blogger Dr Bryan Vartabedian
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Peter Birch talks health tech to digital health social entrepreneur Matiu Bush
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Researchers at CSIRO’s Data61 are looking at how how social media might form part of an early-warning system for such rapidly developing asthma outbreaks as thunderstorm asthma
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Next in our continuing series on the top 10 companies that have the most potential to make it as a true healthcare platform business over the next 5-10 years
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Who invests more than $260m per annum on a venture where there are no meaningful measurements of return on investment?
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A guest post by Dr Marcus Tan, CEO of HealthEngine, clarifying some points made in our article last month on Top 10 platforms which looked at both HealthEngine and Hotdoc
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A global skin cancer database and some neat AI may underpin some serious disruption in how we are going to detect and therefore treat skin cancer
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Peter Birch of Talking Health Tech and MetaOptima fame (see article in this newsletter on Dermtech) chats through the history of Best Practice, which is probably the market leader in Patient Management Software in the…
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Healthcare has begun to lurch towards the era of open system, APIs and digital platform based connectivity. This is a new ecosystem where data rules and where typically, only a few major platforms will end…
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Health tech officionada, Peter Birch of MetaOptima talks deep and meaningful on the future of health innovation and funding in Australia with Medical Director CEO, Matt Bardsley
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GP bodies remain uneasy with data-sharing arrangements under the Practice Incentive Payment – Quality Improvement, despite having won a reprieve of sorts without sacrificing the payments promised.
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The DoD healthcare system contract might provide us with a view of what we could do in a connected healthcare system which is free of complex market factors such as vendor commercial imperatives, state vs…
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Now the dust has settled on the federal election, everyone seems to be getting used to a government they didn’t think they’d have. With no change in government, the ADHA is ramping up its core…
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SPONSORED The BP Premier summit, to be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre between May 22 and May 24 next year, might be the most interesting gathering of BP users yet, with the market-leading software…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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A smartphone app that analyses the sound of coughs is proving to be a successful diagnostic tool in the assessment of paediatric respiratory conditions, researchers say.
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Dig deep into just who might have access to your My Health Record and you find it gets a little grey at some point. Will the public be understanding of the practicalities of having certain…
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Patient centric is a fatigued term and we need to get more realistic about what we could and should do in the context of a very complex and risky system
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Who'd have thought that accounting software might be the first thing you'd consider if you wanted an immediate and large increase to your practice efficiency and profitability. The first in our new series on neat…
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SPONSORED: Best Practice, one of Australia's leading patient management systems, is launching a patient app that is likely to significantly change the doctor-patient communication dynamic across it's broad footprint of practices
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The Medical Republic brings you the highlights from the Wild Health Summit, including how we might efficiently streamline the transition of our healthcare system from acute care to chronic care.
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GPs know there are potential benefits of recommending smartphone apps to patients but need professional guidance to avoid their consult feeling like a “Telstra shop,” a study says.
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Tess Van De Rijt i,CEO and Founder of Patient Connector, will be one of our four showcase start ups to pitch to the audience at next weeks Wild Health Summit in Sydney
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Tim Blake of Semantic Consulting, a leading digital health consultancy, chats to Wild Health about why Australian governments and healthcare providers might be very slow to board the digital health transformation bus, and what that…
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One of our iconic medical AI experts warns that AI is finally impacting the frontline of medicine seriously, with all its potential for good and bad outcomes but it’s such a hyped topic, Australia might…
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Technology has already delivered impressive improvements to the way in which healthcare is delivered in Australia – but the opportunity to do more is enormous. In this sponsored post Equinix Australia managing director, Jeremy Deutsch,…
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Medical AI is here according to Prof Enrico Coiera of the Australian Alliance of Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare (AAAIH). Is that a good or bad thing?
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The COO of the Australian Digital Health Agency, Bettina McMahon, talks to the challenges of their secure messaging program and its context as the Agency rolls into its consultation phase for a much broader attempt…
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“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. It’s a cliché that more than a few of my old bosses in corporate used on me during strategy, reforecasting and budget sessions. It was usually…
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Our first podcast, albeit borrowed from talkinghealthtech.com.au, a new Australian health tech podcast by Peter Birch. Grahame explains the origins of FHIR and where it's heading. It's much better listening than reading!
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If you're interested in the stories on this blog come to Wild Health Summit in Sydney using this 15% off promotional code.
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Australia’s medical software industry, though peppered with some great talent, interesting start ups, and high potential emerging software platform plays, isn’t where you’d normally be looking for our next IT unicorn. But we may just…
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Big bold new digital hospitals might be to our future healthcare needs what, to some extent, coal fired power stations ended up becoming for our energy sector
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Telstra Health, once plagued by issues of strategic discontinuity and then by its National Cancer Screening Registry contract with the Federal Government, appears to be emerging into a new and productive phase of continuity and…
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The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) and the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) are looking to combine forces. Why now?
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Will the appointment of the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA)CEO to the board of the ADHA bear fruit, or conflict?
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Augh. Not secure messaging again? Ex Healthlink CEO Tom Bowden has a confession to make, an offer we surely can’t refuse, and some practical tips for how our digital health Agency might crack our ongoing…
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If you expected something more from a political debate on health policy than volleys of talking points and dollar figures, interspersed by a little light sledging, then you must be new here.
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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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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…
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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…
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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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Small, portable ultrasound machines can fast-track diagnosis and are changing the face of emergency medicine, experts say.
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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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The journey of sorting out securing messaging in Australia is starting to feel a little like groundhog day
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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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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…
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The US governments proposal to force providers and vendors to stop information would mean FHIR gets mandated as the health sharing standard across the US, and force others around the world to look at whether…
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If you haven't caught up with this recent tome on the painful history of EMRs in the US, here's your chance. Reproduced with permission from Kaiser Health News
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Australia’s approach to evolving healthcare web sharing standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) looks more strategically isolated following the US government’s recent proposal to mandate it as a platform for all health data sharing standards…
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Apple’s decision to transform from a smartphone company to a healthcare company may change all our lives
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Wild Health Irregular Insights is a new health tech and innovation newsletter focussing on industry led insights, opinions and analysis for Australian health technology professionals
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There's a big difference between being a medical authority and a medical influencer. You can be both but the web and social media are blurring the lines with some likely fallout
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At last year’s senate hearings into the My Health Record (MHR) one of the star witnesses for the defence (the defence of the MHR that is), was the Australian Digital Health Agency’s (ADHA) chief operating…
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Thousands of records containing sensitive information such as HIV-status, past abortions and mental health issues are being requested by the police every year – and doctors and privacy experts are deeply concerned about it.
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GP patient management software giant MedicalDirector has restructured its business significantly, letting go as many 14 staff members, according to sources.
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What if your patients told you a lot of useful stuff before they sat down with you? And when they eventually walked in, you’d already read a summary of who they are, what they think…
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Did the Hello Health RACGP debacle bring the long time RACGP commercial manager Craig Martin undone? If you’re trying to slide something under the media radar, then the twilight zone between Christmas and New Year…
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Just before Xmas , the medical software industry of Australia put a very large and potentially game-changing stake in the ground, which may have a very positive impact on doctors (and patients) around the country…
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An examination of the legislation underpinning Medicare Australia has revealed that the precedent for the police accessing MyHealthRecord without a warrant was set a long time ago. Medicare Australia is legally allowed to share linked…
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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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Healthcare is resisting digital transformation in a manner that people should think about much more carefully. Here’s why
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Why is that the robot is winning in the return on investment stakes against an EMR.
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The cloud and mobile make your next look at upgrading your patient management system a potentially game-changing decision
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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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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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The MHR isn’t everyone’s favourite government project at the moment, but there are some reasons to be cheerful.
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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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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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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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“All humans have three lives: public, private and secret.” – Gabriel Garcia Marques
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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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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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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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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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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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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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