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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...

Daniel Ezzedines family respond to sentencing over Canterbury attack  |  Updated: 14:18, 21 January 2021 The family of a German teenager say they wish his attackers had been given sentences to reflect the life-changing injuries they inflicted. Daniel Ezzedine was left permanently brain-damaged after a brutal gang attack in Canterbury in June 2019. Daniel Ezzedine was the victim of a vicious gang attack in Canterbury Before Christmas, two teenage thugs were found guilty of battering the studen...

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

UK-based telehealth vendor Doctor Care Anywhere has listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and raised $A102 million

Telstra Health releases major upgrade to electronic medical record Written by Kate McDonald on 19 January 2021. Telstra Health has launched an upgraded version of its electronic medical record (EMR) at 
Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney and St John of God Midland Hospital in Perth, with plans to launch to its entire client base this year. Telstra Health says the upgrade has a number of key functionality improvements including new multi-tasking capabilities to enable staff to...

Mal Thatcher named as Australian Digital Health Agency CTO Written by Kate McDonald on 19 January 2021. Former Queensland Health chief health information officer and Mater Health CIO Mal Thatcher has been named as the Australian Digital Health Agency’s (ADHA) new chief technology officer. Dr Thatcher was CIO of Mater Health in Brisbane for almost 11 years, where he led the development of its Smart Hospital strategy, and was an adjunct professor at QUT before taking on the in...

Telstra Health has developed a portal for the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) that is being integrated with clinical software systems Best Practice and MedicalDirector to allow healthcare professionals to access their patients’ bowel