WA Health turns to role-based messaging platform
Western Australia’s Department of Health will be deploying a role-based messaging platform for healthcare staff statewide.
The Microsoft Teams-based platform provided by Baret will initially support the State Health Operations Centre’s (SHOC) System Flow Centre, which coordinates emergency care, patient transfers, and transport. The SHOC will later be used to consolidate fragmented channels, looking to enhance reliability, care coordination, and statewide collaboration.
Baret, first developed for Austin Health, is also used across Monash Health and Mercy Health in Victoria.
HealthOne expands into NZ’s North Island
The HealthOne shared EHR system is set to be implemented in three primary health organisations in New Zealand's North Island.
Tū Ora Compass Health, Te Awakairangi Health Network, and Health Hawke’s Bay aim to cover 80 general practices by yearend.
Already implemented in the South Island region, the shared EHR allows clinicians to access patient histories, test results, medications, allergies, and GP summaries through a unified system.
The rollout is also set for integration with the upcoming national Shared Digital Health Record system, the first phase of which is expected to be completed by December.
NSW Health renews AWS Cloud deal
Amazon Web Services will continue providing public cloud services to NSW Health following a contract extension worth A$159.6 million ($103 million).
It follows their separate decade-long contract last year to establish the foundation for the statewide Single Digital Patient Record system.
The cloud services also underpin other critical systems across the New South Wales public health system, including the EMR, Telestroke, data lakes, and pharmacy services.
Smart glasses support palliative nursing training
Nursing students from Curtin University are using smart glasses during their palliative care placements with home care provider Silverchain.
Based on a media release, the glasses stream live video to clinical facilitators, so they can remotely supervise their training. Silverchain said it helps reduce follow-up visits, prevents unplanned escalations, and supports better medication and wound care management.
Victoria launches virtual care research hub
Northern Health has established a research centre dedicated to developing and evaluating virtual care models.
According to a media release, the Victorian Centre for Virtual Health Research will co-design models with patients and clinicians and provide evidence to support Victoria’s virtual care strategy.
