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The health sector has topped the list of notifiable data breaches for the fourth consecutive quarter, as identified by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
An Australian-developed app is combining mobile phones with telehealth principles to bring burns sufferers fast, accurate and secure specialist advice from clinicians.
Data is a critical asset in the healthcare industry – our medical professionals rely on accurate and up-to-date clinical information in order to best assist patients.
The current processes around many clinical information systems are “not patient or GP-centred” and is “highly inefficient and frustrating for general practice”, according to a report by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).
As Australia goes through the inevitable digitisation of hospitals, moving away from paper into the digital environment, data-driven approaches are key to informing system evaluation and redesign, improving flow through hospitals and delivering improved patient outcomes.
As the Federal Government today pushes the button to create My Health Records for every Australian who wants one, the industry has stepped out asking for more transparency around security and secondary use of the records to enable people to make more informed decisions about it.
SA Health is expected to scrap and reconstruct its troubled electronic patient records system following an independent review of the program.
New technology using AI to tell the difference between harmless moles and dangerous melanomas has hit the market.
The Sydney Children’s Hospital Network has taken a pioneering approach to telehealth for physiotherapy, with the department leading the hospital network in the use of video to improve its patient- and family-centered approach.
Brisbane-based real-time precision dosing software company DoseMe has gone from strength to strength in its company growth and success since it was founded in April 2014, following two years of prototype development.