Nathan Eddy

A Pharmaceutical Society of Australia report finds that real-time prescription monitoring, electronic prescriptions and pharmacist input into the country’s My Health Record electronic health record system are among the top areas where investments are needed.

The technology could help healthcare organizations build a more comprehensive and secure protected health information inventory within Kubernetes workloads on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

The results of a new J.D. Power survey suggest that, for the patients standing to gain the most from telehealth, services need to be positioned and explained as a way to reduce costs while maintaining a high level of care.

Broader staff access to more applications, more computing power and greater mobility are just some of the cloud benefits healthcare providers are using to empower their workforce.

As companies work to improve their drug discovery processes and foster other new innovations, cloud technology is enabling easier collaboration among researchers worldwide.

Even though 90% of Australians now have an account, one challenge has been to convince more providers that there's enough clinical utility for it to benefit them, said AMA South Australia president Dr. Chris Moy.

But a study from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute finds that orgs with a solid incident response plan had $1.23 million less in breach costs than those that didn't.

The program, which will be a key part of Monash university's new National Centre for Healthy Ageing, will use EHRs to help monitor the frequency of dementia and associated risk factors.

And that's because too many board members don't have the right level of IT and security expertise, a new Black Book study suggests.

American Telemedicine Association's "State of the States Report" finds progress, but still sees strategies for states to be incentivized to adopt pro-telehealth policies.