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Clinical software vendor Genie Solutions has partnered with medicines information specialist MIMS to make active ingredient prescribing

Community pharmacies applying to take part in Phase 2 of the national Covid vaccination program will be required to have a patient management

Written by Kate McDonald on 31 January 2021. Israel leads vax roll-out, Covid passport in Kenya, PCR tests on phone, Japan relies on paper, US gaps in health data, UK Pinnacle system, AI for DI in Canada, IT strategies for vax, V-Health passport, Samsung smartwatch ECG, Google VaccineFinder, Covid data theft, digital health boost for German hospitals, Philips buys Capsule The Times of Israel ~ Nathan Jeffay ~ 14/01/2021 While the US and UK are both giving out more vaccinations than Israel i...

The ACT government has announced plans to replace its DORA controlled drug monitoring portal with the national real-time prescription monitoring system

COVID vaccination history details added to Healthi app Written by Kate McDonald on 27 January 2021. IT consulting firm Chamonix Health has released an upgrade to its Healthi app that will present users’ COVID-19 vaccination history on its home page under the person’s name. While a message saying “No COVID immunisations found” is now appearing, as soon as any of the approved vaccines begin to be administered then a record will automatically appear on the home page as well...

The Australian Department of Health has issued an expression of interest for general practices capable of participating in phase 1b

Unlike Austria’s electronic health record you cannot opt out of the electronic certificate scheme. Digital Health News ~ Andrea Downey ~ 14/01/2021 A lack of data integration across the health and social care sectors “throttled” the timely sharing of vital information to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report has found. FierceHealthcare ~ Tina Reed ~ 15/01/2021 The rule requires payers in certain government programs to build application programming interfaces (APIs) for data exchange ...

Allscripts’ Sunrise EMR to be extended across Gippsland Written by Kate McDonald on 21 January 2021. The Gippsland Health Alliance (GHA) will extend its implementation of Allscripts’ Sunrise electronic medical record (EMR) across Victoria’s Gippsland region following a roll-out at the 300-bed Latrobe Regional Hospital (LRH) last year. As part of phase three of the project, the Sunrise emergency care module will be rolled out in the emergency departments of the Central Gipp...

Health ID partners with Axis Health for complete mobile computing solution Written by Kate McDonald on 21 January 2021. Queensland-based healthcare identity solutions specialist Health ID has partnered with medical equipment and consumables distributor Axis Health to offer a new mobile computing solution to hospitals in Queensland and NSW to help clinical staff better manage patient information at the point of care. Health ID and Axis Health, a division of Cabrini Health, have c...

A South Australian former enrolled nurse has been disqualified from providing health services for 15 years for altering patient vaccination