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The Department of Health and Aged Care has released the Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy and accompanying action plan.

Patients and their doctors can now access their digital health records from a single platform.

Harmony Park Family Medicine also saw turnaround times decrease significantly, with more than half of monthly determinations requiring no authorization – and 70% of prior auth requests sent to Humana being approved instantly.

Also, eHealth NSW is expanding the Clinical Device Notification Platform to rural and remote areas in Sydney.

Also, Hoan My Medical Group in Vietnam has deployed AI to enhance chronic disease detection.

By never losing sight of patient care, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and other technologies can help to transition healthcare from a reactive, fee-for-service model to a value-based, proactive one, says one tech strategist.

Another week, another leak of personally identifiable information and protected health information at more than one major health organization. This time, a critical access hospital and a department of public health are attacked by ransomware.

The government is investing $4.2 million to launch the network.

The Australian Digital Health Agency has outlined specific steps to increase the uptake of healthcare identifiers across health facilities.