
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.
Dr Zoran Bolevich talks about where the technology has come from and where it’s going after COVID.
Read morePublisher Jeremy Knibbs talks to Hyland Healthcare’s Peter Weston about how a hospital can access its current imaging system, and the ROI for the hospital and patient care in developing an enterprise wide imaging solution.
Read moreClose to 80 percent of all health care data is unstructured and remains an untapped resource for many organisations.
Read moreThe healthcare sector presents a tempting target for cyber attackers, but defending yourself and your business is a lot easier than getting your black belt in karate.
Read moreMaryborough District Health Service has rolled out Telstra Health’s Virtual Health Monitoring for monitoring the health and wellbeing of its patients remotely.
Read moreTelstra Health’s new service is designed to aid organisations looking to utilise digital health to meet their business goals.
Read moreHumans are more comfortable with robots that tell terrible jokes during medical consultations.
Read moreMedical media has for years engaged doctors via journalism and storytelling, funded mainly by pharma advertising. Now it wants to go upstream – what might that mean for doctors?
Read morePatient experience data has been overwhelmingly positive, with 86% describing their care as good or very good, and very few problems with technology.
Read moreAt Telstra Vantage Remixed 2020, Telstra Health was proud to launch the Brilliant Connected Women in Digital Health network.
Read moreWith the right tools, telehealth can do far more than maintain a minimum of care during a pandemic.
Read moreWolters Kluwer and Marlborough Primary Health Network are providing UpToDate to medical practitioners across New Zealand.
Read moreBut there are no details yet about the timeline for implementation and what it could mean for the temporary item numbers, set to expire in March 2021.
Read moreThe University of Melbourne has unveiled its new Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, which seeks to bridge the divide between tech and patients.
Read moreHow a simple idea, executed sharply within our now rapidly changing digital health ecosystem, might give patients another reason to love their GP and GPs valuable insight into their patient's script fulfilment behaviour.
Read moreThe overlord of everything anti-vax in Australia may have met his match.
Read moreTraditional healthcare delivery models changed overnight and irreversibly in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreWhile some nations are investing heavily in AI, Australia seems largely comfortable being a data primary producer and algorithm importer – which may not be a safe place.
Read moreAussies are embracing telehealth, but what exactly are we doing during our virtual visits with health professionals?
Read moreYou’re a successful MD. Is the Chief Medical Officer role at a promising biotech the right opportunity for you?
Read moreThe last straw for the My Health Record (MHR) surely arrived this week with an FOI revelation that all the research the ADHA has done to prove to us the worth of this $2 billion…
Read moreHow many tipoffs does it take to turn a conspiracy theory into a news story?
Read moreRemoving barriers to health services and better supporting patients on their health journey is now closer to being achieved at Goondir Health Services in Queensland with the roll out of Telstra Health’s Virtual Health Service…
Read moreWhen it comes to cyber attacks on Australia’s healthcare sector, where do the vulnerabilities lie and how do you protect patient data?
Read moreWhen a specialty cancer hospital became part of the Parkville precinct that included the Royal Melbourne Hospital, leaders wanted to implement a common electronic medical record (EMR) system, a move that would enable the provider…
Read moreDiscrimination is likely to turn patients off digital health services, undermining the uptake in programs like My Health Record.
Read moreSome patients have a fantastic consult with their GP, only to get home and realise they can't remember most of it.
Read moreWild Health has been chatting to some of our top digital health leaders. Listen here.
Read moreThere were more questions than answers during our live webinar and Q&A on video telehealth, but we have tackled some of them here.
Read moreElectronic Medical Record (EMR) solutions can be a big step towards transforming a healthcare provider. But an EMR alone as a digital solution will not generally get an organisation far.
Read moreYour electronic patient record (EPR) doesn’t natively manage unstructured content.
Read moreEpilepsy is usually portrayed in the movies as a grand mal seizure, with the actor dropping to the floor, losing consciousness, and violently convulsing.
Read moreIt’s hard to imagine a period in the history of general practice when so much change, so much stress and so many challenges were afoot at the same time.
Read moreMedical practitioners would like access to more clinical decision support solutions in order to improve diagnostic accuracy and support new flexible models of patient care, a new survey has found.
Read moreThe Minister for Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor, is making a mockery of the role and must go, according to 700 health professionals.
Read moreWe researched app usage among patients with chronic disease and found high dropout rates, but also an upside.
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in rapid changes to the way Australians access health care. We’re now using telehealth more than ever.
Read moreEverything is pointing to the use of video in telehealth by GPs going significantly up from its miserly current 3% of all telehealth calls. Should you be a bit better prepared?
Read moreThe Australian College of Nurse Practitioners has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s evidence-based clinical decision support solution UpToDate for its members.
Read moreAI has promised humankind many things – self-driving cars, intelligent fridges, droid dogs – but the deliverance from painful colonoscopies might be the best use of robots yet.
Read moreIt’s getting harder to sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of what is trustworthy and actionable information.
Read moreAustralia’s health and aged care sectors have been fragmentally digitised for a number of years and, as a partner to some of the largest health and care providers, at Telstra Health we have seen a…
Read moreAustralian Healthcare Software provider Global Health Limited (ASX: GLH) (“Global Health” or “Company”) is pleased to announce a new partnership of the Company’s Lifecard consumer health platform with Asthma Australia.
Read moreAs a sort of diversion from our normal fare of COVID-19, government, the regulators and medical college guts and gore, this week we thought you might be interested in why medical technology companies are suddenly…
Read moreThe COVID-19 crisis has launched us into a new era of telehealth, with very little warning. As the pandemic drags on into October there has been much discussion about its impact on the future of…
Read moreA recent survey undertaken by Clinic to Cloud reveals COVID-19 has further stretched an already overburdened healthcare sector in the last six months.
Read moreAmid the forest of hoo haa around this week's “game changer” (read, election-winning) budget, Greg Hunt seems to have confirmed formally for the first time that telehealth is now a permanent fixture of Medicare.
Read moreThe impending immunisation program for COVID-19 is an opportunity to capitalise on digital health infrastructure Australia has put in place over recent years.
Read moreAn exodus of office workers from Australia’s cities fiscally crippled centrally located practices, but accountants who manage healthcare finances say business is booming in suburban waiting rooms.
Read moreDoctors could become the gatekeepers of e-cigarettes under a proposal by the TGA to make the nicotine-containing versions available in Australia by prescription by June 2021.
Read moreA six month pause on current telehealth settings isn't much time for government, doctors and tech vendors to work out the right settings and prepare for a future that has changed forever
Read moreBulk-billed telehealth has been thrown a six-month life line, with federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announcing the Medicare item numbers will continue past their original 30 September deadline.
Read moreA trio of Queensland GPs who have fallen foul of the Professional Services Review while working for an after-hours medical deputising service say their employer needs to take some responsibility for the allegations of inappropriate…
Read moreGeneral practitioners across Australia have welcomed a last-minute extension to Medicare-subsidised telehealth, but women’s sexual and reproductive health services have missed out yet again.
Read moreThe RACGP has expressed concerns over the Active Script List, which could allow any participating pharmacy to see medications a patient may want to keep discreet.
Read moreThe very best and worst the internet has to offer in medical memes.
Read moreThis is according to Dr Bernard Ng, one of the expert panellists who spoke at Wild Health’s recent webinar about collaboration in healthcare R&D.
Read moreFollowing the successful introduction of the Medtasker clinical task management system by Telstra Health at Royal Hobart Hospital’s Emergency Department, the solution is being rolled out to other teams within the hospital.
Read moreOne suspects the new Australian Digital Health Agency CEO appointment puts a fairly substantive full stop on the exciting but eventual car crash experiment that was the ADHA and the opt-in My Health Record. What…
Read moreBig money is circling general practice at a time when technology can actually be a transformational tool. But does big money really understand how complex healthcare and GPs are?
Read moreIf you’re managing a lot of data in your health organisation, you will end up going cloud sooner or later in one way or another. Here are 10 common questions answered for organisations that are…
Read moreThe question of how to combine the human side of healthcare with increasingly digitised systems was one of the main points raised in Wild Health’s recent webinar about patient data, device integration, predictive analytics and…
Read moreThree leading VC firms in conversation with Peter Birch from TalkingHealthTech on the new era in digital health transformation and investment post COVID
Read moreNearly 80 percent of clinically relevant content lives outside the EMR. Integrate siloed systems with the EMR to see your whole patient. Hyland Healthcare can help.
Read moreMater Misericordiae Ltd was searching for a better way to get patient information into the hands of its clinicians quickly and completely. It succeeded with OnBase.
Read moreThe safeguards that would ideally be put in place before launching medicine into cyberspace have largely been ignored during the COVID emergency. Do we need to be worried?
Read moreThe $2 billion My Health Record has largely been MIA during COVID-19 while the idea to allow doctors use their phone to do a consult may end up as the catalyst for health system transformation.
Read moreFew things define our perceptions of the US more than gun control: as in, the bewildering lack thereof.
Read more“Any idiot can face a crisis: it’s day to day living that wears you out” – Anton Checkov
Read moreThe national rollout of eScripts has experienced a false start, with the Australian Digital Health Agency asking GP software companies to remove the electronic prescribing functionality that was only launched in late July.
Read morePrescriptions will soon name drug's active ingredients by default, rather than brand names, in a move aimed at reducing medication errors and saving the health system money.
Read moreAs the emergency of the COVID pandemic eventually fades and the collaboration dynamic that has led to so much progress in digital health naturally recalibrates, what fundamental changes in our approach to regulation, collaboration and…
Read moreIn this podcast, Medical Republic publisher Jeremy Knibbs chats to Equinix Australia managing director Guy Danskine about the rapid rise of cloud exchanges and co location services in data management in healthcare and when and…
Read moreDr Karen Price is a GP on a social mission. So much so she help found one of Australia's most influential doctor social media networks, GPs Down Under (GPDU), which is now over 8,000 GPs…
Read moreA serious collateral complication of the eclectic nature of how we are building digital capability in Australian hospitals is the waste, confusion and fatigue that care teams can encounter as a result of the burgeoning…
Read moreWhen worst-case scenarios start unfolding, as they have recently in Victoria, even politicians realise they need to accept some responsibility and blame.
Read moreSuccess in national digital health programs is rare. It should be celebrated in these gloomy times.
Read moreThe president of the RACGP, Dr Harry Nespolon passed away on Sunday night night after nine months with pancreatic cancer. He leaves behind a wife and two young daughters.
Read moreWild Health asks four of Australia’s leading digital health influencers what changes created by COVID-19 are here to stay, why, and what is likely to be reigned back in by government
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has presented a myriad of uncertainties, particularly for the most vulnerable groups in our communities. Clear and frequent communication has arguably never been more vital.
Read moreOne hundred and forty-four years after the invention of the telephone, that magical technology has at last been fully, officially integrated into our health system.
Read moreWhen Florence Nightingale stepped into Scutari military hospital in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1856 to assist with the Crimean war effort she was met with a scene of chaos.
Read moreBroad use of e-scripts will be available for GPs in all states and territories except Queensland by the end of next week.
Read moreBettina McMahon accepted the role of interim CEO of the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) in February, with no idea that that she would be leading the organisation through the biggest disruption to digital health…
Read moreSexual and reproductive healthcare groups are calling on the government not to halt telehealth funding for their services, saying it will hinder access.
Read moreAfter three months of the Morrison government touting the COVIDSafe app as a “sunscreen” for the coronavirus pandemic, some GPs say they still wouldn’t waste their breath recommending it to patients.
Read moreIf there could be a silver lining to the disaster that is COVID-19 (there probably can’t) it is that with no place to hide the government is generally being smart, practical and efficient in how…
Read moreThe weekly podcast series on Australian healthtech, Talking Healthtech is expanding its offering into a comprehensive new directory for the sector
Read moreTelehealth, though nominally a temporary fix of the pandemic, is revealing deep rifts in the general practice community over where the profession goes from here and how.
Read moreIndividuals who want to access to bulk-billed telehealth will now have to do so with their regular GP or practice, says the Department of Health.
Read moreWild Health's free expert webinar series looked at COVID-19 and digital health with three major digital health influencers, building knowledge based collaboration at scale in life science research and trends in digital hospital patient management…
Read moreAmbulatory blood pressure monitoring devices look set to be publicly funded, in a move that could curb both the under- and over-diagnosis of hypertension.
Read moreWhile some health providers have been able to transition to telehealth with minimal disruption, Avaana CEO Rohan Pardasani says that many high-contact practitioners have been left with few options.
Read moreKathy Hubble, the founder of Amelio Health, says that 1 in 5 Australians experience chronic pain – and digital solutions can help.
Read moreWhy don’t great whites ever bite private equity managers? Professional courtesy.
Read moreWhilst COVID-19 has seen other software providers and even the government rapidly turning to the cloud, Best Practice are taking a more considered approach as they develop their app and cloud-based service.
Read moreIt turns out that there’s nothing quite like a pandemic to turn a slow moving politically sclerotised digital health sector upside down.
Read more‘Electiceuticals’ are electronic devices that are designed to deliver a similar therapeutic effect as pharmaceuticals.
Read moreBefore the COVID-19 crisis hit, NPS MedicineWise had the option for GPs to meet with educators online instead of face-to-face, but, over the past few months, the number of virtual visits has increased by around…
Read moreAllergy Pal from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute), CareMonitor, Oculo, FRED IT's WhatsApp electronic prescribing solution and Disease Tracker by PenCS, are all inaugural winners of The Australian Digital Health Agency's Innovation Challenge
Read moreSpecialists will now have access to the same system that some GPs use to manage patient bookings online, as HotDoc and Genie launch their new system for specialists.
Read moreElsevier Health is launching a series of webinars looking at the transformation of nursing, particularly in the light of changes in digital health and education post COVID-19.
Read moreLeading telehealth provider, Healthdirect Australia and MediRecords, Australia's fast growing cloud patient management system vendor, joined together to deliver the National Coronavirus Helpline in just a few days.
Read moreUniversal telehealth was a no brainer for COVID-19, and is for the future, but there is a lot of mess to sort out after the pandemic
Read moreSix reasons why things will never go back to the way they were in digital health, and how we could still manage to squander such an opportunity if we’re not careful.
Read moreRecent innovations in digital health have seen a dramatic increase in the number of available mobile health apps. But how trustworthy are they?
Read moreCOVID-19 has put a spanner in the works for medical conference organisers, but the RACGP is not letting the virus put a stop to its major education and networking event.
Read moreThe introduction of telehealth was a stand-out success of the health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Expansion of telehealth should be part of the new normal, but this should not simply be a roll-over of…
Read moreThe traditional dominance of the patient management systems (PMS) as the primary care digital gatekeepers is starting to be challenged
Read moreA heartening and perhaps surprising revelation from COVID-19 is that government has been harbouring a lot of latent talent for rapid and effective digital innovation and implementation. Can we somehow leverage that moving forward?
Read moreWild Health publisher Jeremy Knibbs is joined by GP leaders in digital health - Dr Amandeep Hansra and Dr Nathan Pinskier, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, and Dr Harry Nespolon, the president of the RACGP, to discuss…
Read moreTalkingHealthTech's Peter Birch talks to Medical Director's Matt Barabout what challenges faced the PMS provider in the run in to COVID-19
Read moreRegister now for Wild Health Melbourne for FREE and either get 40% off the live summit price if we go ahead with a live summit, or retain your registration as FREE entry to Wild Health's…
Read moreThis strange video has surfaced promoting MedicalDirector’s new integrated telehealth offering alongside a somewhat confusing announcement by the government to upgrade GP internet access for free via the NBN
Read moreEver nimble, Peter Birch from Talking Health Tech ran a panel of four software company founder/CEOs just last week to gauge how much work they've done on for the COVID-19 induced telehealth changes, and what…
Read moreEveryone wanted telehealth. But like this?
Read moreYou're invited to Wild Health's free webinar on building at scale knowledge based collaboration models across life science organisations
Read moreTechnology changes thrust upon the primary care sector, especially telehealth, may result in seismic structural changes to the sector by the time the crisis is over
Read moreCOVID-19 distress has let our GPs, software vendors, pharma companies and government to be suddenly move oceans and more innovative and pragmatic about how they deliver services
Read moreWe are all collectively participants and witnesses to perhaps the most significant health crisis the world has experienced in the past 100 years.
Read moreThis was our Saturday post for our daily GP newsletter, but interestingly, many of the stories relate to innovation created by COVID-19. Other stories, like the NSW Health Cruise Ship debacle, are just a bit…
Read moreMelbourne's Wild Health on June 2 at Collins Square has the most interest and edgy program of all the Wild Health Sumits to date with headline keynotes from Aashima Gupta, Google Global Head of Cloud…
Read moreTelstra Health, once had the grand ambition to be ‘the’ Australian digital health platform. And then things went a bit awry. Now the group is stable, growing and winning interesting national digital health contracts. do…
Read moreVarious GP groups, including the RACGP, are asking the state and federal governments to temporarily relax legislation around the current e-prescription infrastructure, to allow doctors to prescribe for COVID-19 and self-isolated patients using telehealth.
Read moreElectronic only scripts looks like a watershed project for how the government and vendors view FHIR moving forward in Australia
Read moreIs this a sign that digital health has finally hit the big time, or is it just more PR fun and games amid the from the enigmatic and strange US president
Read moreThe Department of Human Services has decided to release the guidelines governing the disclosure of private health data to the police, one year after rejecting a Freedom of Information request by our sister publication, The Medical…
Read moreAnother potential candidate in our series looking at what companies in digital health might end up as being the major platform around which national health could transact
Read moreGuess which company tops Slate.com's annual list of the 30 most evil technology led corporations? The same one that pharmacists are now very worried about in Australia.
Read moreLast days to get Wild Health Summit No 5 Early Bird rates which are 30% off final price
Read moreThe recruitment process for a new Australian Digital Health Agency CEO started in earnest this week with this ad from search firm Watermark. What are we to expect of this process and are there any…
Read moreThe’yes’ vote on the merger of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) with the Australian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) just prior to Xmas last year signals some likely major shifts in the profile…
Read moreYesterday the ADHA announced that yet to be decided standards for secure messaging will in future be mandatory for government procurement, a stake in the ground, which although maybe a long way off, may belie…
Read moreThe language used in electronic medical records is deeply confusing to a computer
Read moreWe've got the whole EHR dilemma ass up according to US physician and tech blogger Dr Bryan Vartabedian
Read morePeter Birch talks health tech to digital health social entrepreneur Matiu Bush
Read moreResearchers 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
Read moreNext 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
Read moreWho invests more than $260m per annum on a venture where there are no meaningful measurements of return on investment?
Read moreA 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
Read moreA 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
Read moreThe 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
Read morePeter 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…
Read moreHealthcare 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…
Read moreHealth 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
Read moreGP 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.
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreNow 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…
Read moreSPONSORED 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…
Read moreHealthEngine 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
Read moreAlthough 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…
Read morePathology 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…
Read moreIn 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
Read moreIf 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.
Read moreIn 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
Read moreAngst 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…
Read moreThe NOA audit clearance of the MHR is a lot more worrying than it just being misunderstood as the MHR project is working
Read moreMigration 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…
Read moreIf 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…
Read moreA 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.
Read moreDig 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…
Read morePatient 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
Read moreWho'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…
Read moreSPONSORED: 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
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreGPs 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.
Read moreTess 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
Read moreTim 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…
Read moreOne 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…
Read moreTechnology 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,…
Read moreMedical 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?
Read moreThe 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…
Read more“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…
Read moreOur 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!
Read moreAustralia’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…
Read moreBig 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
Read moreTelstra 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…
Read moreThe Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) and the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) are looking to combine forces. Why now?
Read moreWill the appointment of the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA)CEO to the board of the ADHA bear fruit, or conflict?
Read moreAugh. 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…
Read moreIf 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.
Read moreWhen 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
Read moreIf 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…
Read moreOf 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…
Read moreMany 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.
Read moreSmall, portable ultrasound machines can fast-track diagnosis and are changing the face of emergency medicine, experts say.
Read moreHow 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.
Read moreThe journey of sorting out securing messaging in Australia is starting to feel a little like groundhog day
Read moreEMRs, 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.
Read moreHave 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreIf 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
Read moreAustralia’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…
Read moreApple’s decision to transform from a smartphone company to a healthcare company may change all our lives
Read moreWild Health Irregular Insights is a new health tech and innovation newsletter focussing on industry led insights, opinions and analysis for Australian health technology professionals
Read moreThere'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
Read moreAt 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…
Read moreThousands 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.
Read moreGP patient management software giant MedicalDirector has restructured its business significantly, letting go as many 14 staff members, according to sources.
Read moreWhat 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…
Read moreDid 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…
Read moreJust 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…
Read moreAn 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…
Read moreIf 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.
Read moreHealthcare is resisting digital transformation in a manner that people should think about much more carefully. Here’s why
Read moreWhy is that the robot is winning in the return on investment stakes against an EMR.
Read moreThe cloud and mobile make your next look at upgrading your patient management system a potentially game-changing decision
Read moreSpend 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.
Read moreLast 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…
Read moreThe MHR isn’t everyone’s favourite government project at the moment, but there are some reasons to be cheerful.
Read moreDoctors, 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?
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreA 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…
Read more“All humans have three lives: public, private and secret.” – Gabriel Garcia Marques
Read moreThe issue of the MyHealthRecord has been troubling me. I lack the eloquence to express my concerns sometimes, so please bear with me.
Read moreDrivers are distracted klutzes and computers could obviously do better. Self-driving cars will make all of us safer on the road.
Read moreSeven 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.
Read moreSince 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…
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe 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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