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International health IT week in review: May 30

Bay of Plenty District Health Board is gone live with the Kiwi-developed Core Schedule vaccine clinic staff rostering module

Apple releases ECG app with aFib notifications on Apple Watch in Australia Written by Pulse+IT on 27 May 2021. Apple has made its ECG app for Apple Watch series 4, 5 and 6 available in Australia with the latest iOS and watchOS software updates. The feature is a direct-to-consumer product that enables users to take an electrocardiogram from their wrist. It has an irregular rhythm notification feature that will also occasionally check heart rhythms in the background and send a not...

1st Group restructure reversed with interim board removed Written by Kate McDonald on 27 May 2021. The restructure of ASX-listed online appointment booking and directory service provider 1st Group has been sensationally reversed in corporate manoeuvres this week, with co-founder and managing director Klaus Bartosch returning to the role two months after its board announced his resignation. Three directors of the board itself have since resigned, including director and interim CE...

Medication management app and pharmacy services software vendor MedAdvisor is getting ready to release new Australian Immunisation

The Australian government has put up .9 million to begin the early scoping of a national lung cancer screening program, including money

Written by Kate McDonald on 25 May 2021. Healthcare software vendor Dedalus has named former DXC director of healthcare and life sciences for ANZ Daryll Goodall as its new managing director for Asia Pacific, with plans to grow what is already a large market share in the region as well as making further acquisitions. It has also taken on the distributorship of iMDsoft’s MetaVision clinical information system for Australia and New Zealand following the European company’s acquisition of th...

Simple Retail to roll out active script list capabilities backed by Scrypt Written by Kate McDonald on 24 May 2021. Pharmacy solutions vendor Simple Retail will roll out new active script list (ASL) functionality to its users on May 31 after it received confirmation of conformance with the Australian Digital Health Agency requirements for active script lists. Simple Retail has worked with parent company MediSecure and digital clinical relationship management system vendor Scrypt...

Written by Kate McDonald on 24 May 2021. The ACT Health Directorate has dubbed its new real-time prescription monitoring system Canberra Script and promises to begin rolling it out later this year in early adopter sites. The system is replacing the territory’s DAPIS Online Remote Access (DORA) real time prescription monitoring system and is being built using the same technology platform used by Victoria, South Australia and Queensland for their SafeScript, QScript and ScriptCheckSA system...

CALL: Readers made their feelings known Highways England have revealed when a major upgrade of the A69 - which runs from Carlisle to Newcastle - will be completed. The agency say ‘excellent progress’ is being made at Bridge End roundabout in Hexham, Northumberland, where engineers are building two bridges. Drivers and residents have been given their first glimpse of the bridge decks which will form the new circulatory part of the roundabout over the new A69 carriageway after they were...