Former Cerner exec tapped for chief post at Rauland Australia
Health IT provider Rauland Australia has appointed Cameron Burt as CEO.
According to a media release, Burt is bringing over two decades of experience in driving sales and innovation in the healthcare and information technology spaces.
He previously held senior executive positions in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East regional offices of Nasdaq-listed health tech giant Cerner Corporation.
Commenting on his appointment, Burt said: "The company’s commitment to delivering excellent clinical outcomes for customers through innovative, integrated solutions and expansion into new market segments, make this an exciting time to lead such a progressive company."
"Cameron’s appointment will help Rauland further solidify our position as one of the leading providers of innovative technology solutions in the healthcare industry," Rauland Australia Executive Director Steve Gomes also commented.
Vietnam launches bug bounty programme for its COVID-19 digital platforms
The National Cyber Security Center of Vietnam has recently unveiled its BugRank programme for detecting security vulnerabilities in the country's digital platforms for COVID-19 prevention and control.
According to a news report, the programme covers the 20 applications developed and operated by the National Technology Center for COVID-19 Prevention and Control. These applications are being used for managing test samples and results, contact tracing, vaccinations, medical resources, among others.
The cybersecurity programme uses BugRank, a non-profit open-source bug bounty platform developed by Vietnamese security research group VNSecurity. The platform is also being used by researchers for ensuring the security of their reports through the OpenPGP Encryption feature.
Previously, Vietnam used two web-based bug bounty platforms, Viettel's safevuln.com and CyStack Vietnams' whitehub.net.
The news report noted that other digital technology platforms will be added to the programme in the future.
AI research institutes in China collaborate to set up new research centre for health AI
Tsinghua University's Institue for AI Industry Research (AIR) and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) are establishing a new research centre that will coordinate the development of the public health industry using artificial intelligence.
The two centres aim to create new technologies for early prediction, active prevention, personalisation and active participation, as well as to offer "more intelligent" personal health management and "more effective" public health governance.
According to a press release, the new research centre will build a personalised health management system; promote healthy diet and lifestyle through connecting software with smart hardware; and establish an "AI + health" management ecosystem covering scientific research, technical breakthroughs, platform construction, product development and business incubation.
"Through a multimodal neural symbol AI, combined with correlation, attention mechanisms and causality, the centre will enable different expressions and models to be trained and learned from each other," the statement added.
Moreover, the upcoming centre will combine AI technologies, such as those used in confrontation, collaboration, multi-modality, multi-tasking, migration learning and federal learning, to "maximise the huge potential of personal health data".
The new research institute will be led by Wei-Ying Ma, chief scientist and the Huiyan professorial chair at AIR.
Northern Territory's breast screening service connects to My Health Record
The state government of Northern Territory in Australia has recently announced the connection of its BreastScreenNT service to the federal government's My Health Record system, becoming the second breast screening service in the country to do so.
The national digital health platform securely stores a patient's medical records, while providing access to those reports any time when needed. In the Northern Territory, around 220,000 citizens are registered with the system.
BreastScreenNT is a joint state and federal government programme that delivers free breast screening to all women above age 40. The service expects over 1,000 women in remote and regional areas across the state to receive free screening through the mobile mammography unit, Millie.
Their results can now be uploaded to their My Health Record account after assessments from two consultant radiologists.
