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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.

Digital health applications, consumerism, demographic challenges and data governance will be key imperatives in the year ahead, the study shows.

Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council issued a new report saying infosec demands cross-sector collaboration.

The Deloitte Life Sciences and Health Care Practice has issued a report predicting the future direction of healthcare. Its predictions may surprise.

How an interdisciplinary kaizen group within CDC is charting a roadmap for future metrics to improve population health and provider satisfaction.

Yesterday, Orion Health announced a commercial agreement with Abu Dhabi Health Data Services, a new project company established as part of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) between the Department of Health-Abu Dhabi (DoH) and Injazat Data Systems, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi government-owned Mubadala Investment Company, to deliver a Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform.

New technology using AI to tell the difference between harmless moles and dangerous melanomas has hit the market.

SA Health is expected to scrap and reconstruct its troubled electronic patient records system following an independent review of the program.

Earlier this week, the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore made an announcement that confidential information regarding 14,200 individuals diagnosed with HIV up to January 2013, and 2,400 of their contacts, has been illegally disclosed online and is in the possession of an unauthorised person.

As the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT comments period drew to a close, a number of organizations weighed in about how to improve electronic health records platforms.