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Aged care providers should be required to use a digital care management system and the My Health Record system by July next year

Written by Kate McDonald on 28 February 2021. EMR burnout, Canadian provincial PMS fail, FHIR API links PMS to Apple Health Records, RwandAir to trial IATA travel pass, Google building health record search tool, NHS digital assessment criteria, COVID-19 app for aged care, COVID-19 dataset, Ryuk targeting French hospitals, IBM Watson Health sale Healthcare IT News ~ Kat Jercich ~ 19/02/2021 Many 2020 fellows labeled concerns around decreased data quality from cut/paste behaviors, forced work...

Bettina McMahon appointed Healthdirect Australia CEO Written by Kate McDonald on 26 February 2021. Former Australian Digital Health Agency interim CEO Bettina McMahon has been named as the new CEO of health information and helpline operator Healthdirect Australia. Ms McMahon was also chief operating officer and executive general manager for industry and government at ADHA, and also held senior positions at its predecessor, the National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA). Ms M...

Air New Zealand has joined Singapore Airlines, Etihad, Emirates and Qatar Airways in planning a trial of the digital travel pass being

Electronic medical record vendor Cerner has rolled out upgrades to its Millennium suite to support Australia’s Phase 1a COVID-19 vaccination program

Healthdirect Australia is offering callers to its healthdirect helpline a personalised summary of triage advice and information via SMS

Clinical communication and workflow technology vendor Vocera Communications has partnered with nurse call system vendor Vitalcare

Secure messaging app vendor Celo has partnered with mobile app developer MedApps with a joint offering for the local healthcare sector

10 New Zealand hospitals now linked to ICNET infection surveillance system Written by Kate McDonald on 23 February 2021. Ten hospitals across New Zealand are now linked in to the ICNET infection surveillance database hosted by Canterbury District Health Board (DHB), with new COVID-19 functionality launched last year helping providers to detect, manage and trace COVID-19 cases across the national hospital network, including the hotel quarantine network. Canterbury DHB migrated Ba...

Telstra Health has signed an agreement with Canadian telecommunications and digital health giant TELUS to roll out its Health Exchange International