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Microsoft to buy Nuance in $25b deal to boost cloud strategy for healthcare Written by Kate McDonald on 13 April 2021. Microsoft will buy speech recognition and AI developer Nuance Communications in a $US19.6 billion ($A25.6b) deal that will massively expand Microsoft’s healthcare industry cloud strategy. Nuance has a market-leading portfolio of products for clinical speech recognition, many of which are built on Microsoft Azure, including the cloud hosted Dragon Medical One a...

South Australia’s ScriptCheckSA real-time prescription monitoring system has gone live across the state following a short trial

Eastern Health restores systems, confirms ransomware attack Written by Kate McDonald on 06 April 2021. Melbourne’s Eastern Health will resume elective surgery this week and will gradually reopen specialist clinics and outpatients appointments following the cyber incident that affected its systems on March 16, which has been confirmed as a ransomware attack. Eastern Health CIO Lachlan Bakewell said there had been no sign of any exfiltration of data and the organisation was now ...

Wolper Jewish Hospital to implement MasterCare for patient administration Written by Kate McDonald on 06 April 2021. Sydney’s Wolper Jewish Hospital will roll out Global Health’s MasterCare solution as its new patient administration system (PAS), with a go-live expected in May. It plans to then roll out the MasterCare+ electronic discharge summary solution and integrate with the My Health Record in a later phase.

Booking system for COVID vax live but not fully functional Written by Kate McDonald on 17 March 2021. Australia’s new national vaccination information and location service is live but is not yet fully functional, with a restricted number of clinics listed on the searchable Healthdirect site and only a handful showing they are offering online bookings. Most are listed as offering telephone bookings only. Health Minister Greg Hunt announced this morning that Australians eligible...

Written by Kate McDonald on 17 March 2021. Australia has become the first country outside of the US to launch Google’s depression screener in its search function. The tool helps people see their risk for depression and can connect them with the evidence-based resources and crisis hotlines, including Black Dog Institute and Lifeline.

Written by Kate McDonald on 14 March 2021. Attend Anywhere conquers NHS, India’s digital health plan, virtual care in Malaysia, IBM blockchain for Germany’s vaccine certificates, US Covid relief package and health IT, sign-up site for leftover Covid vax, smart speakers track heart rhythm, Telus Health buys Babylon Canada, guide to digital health passports Digital Health News ~ Hannah Crouch ~ 11/03/2021 Not too many people had heard of Attend Anywhere before March 2020 but since then th...

Canadian firm to buy PMS vendor Intrahealth for $21 million Written by Kate McDonald on 12 March 2021. Canadian EMR vendor WELL Health Technologies has agreed to buy New Zealand-founded practice management system vendor Intrahealth for $C19.25 million ($NZ21.25m). Intrahealth provides its Profile PMS to approximately 15,000 clinicians, mainly general practices and medical specialists in New Zealand, Australia and Canada as well as the New Zealand Defence Force and the Australian...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is lobbying the federal government for an extension to the temporary MBS