Like many chief information officers (CIOs), Geoff Harders of Macquarie University Hospital (MUH) has tried the Apple iPad and sees its place in specialised sectors like healthcare. But unlike other CIOs, he has shunned the device.
Western Health is to deploy an electronic health record and scanning system to enable the Victorian healthcare provider to digitally store and deliver patient medical records across its multiple sites.
Movement continues within the CIO ranks as two more organisations advertise for chief information offices, including the federal Department of Health and Aging. The department is this week advertising for a Chief Information and Knowledge Officer to develop “a portfolio-wide framework for capturing, documenting and using information and knowledge”.
The Federal Government passed through the <i>Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010</i> and the <i>Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010</i> this week, following four months of debate and a last minute push by the Department of Health and Ageing and the National eHealth Transition Authority (NeHTA).
Hot on the heels of an ASX update aimed at reassuring investors about the state of the company, iSOFT (ASX:ISF) has announced it has completed the rollout of its patient management system across Tasmania.
ASX-listed e-health provider iSoft (ASX:ISF) has moved to reassure investors, following a halving of its share price, since it issued a market update on the state of the company at the start of June.
Melbourne-based medical research organisation BioGrid Australia has developed an e-health application which promises to break down information siloes between institutions by offering it as an integrated service.
Victoria's Department of Health will shortly commence implementing an e-health smartcard to manage access to key Victorian public health sector (VPHS) applications via a new single sign-on portal, as part of its whole-of-health ICT strategy, HealthSMART.
A total of three software vendors have signed a developer agreement to take part in the National eHealth Transition Authority's (NeHTA) software testing environment for the proposed national healthcare identifier (HI) service.
The Federal Government has bowed to public and industry pressure, proposing new amendments that would address privacy and data security-related issues associated with its Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Bill.
Victoria's whole-of-health ICT strategy, HealthSMART, has grown from eight to 1000 servers in four years as it gears up to provide application services to some 140,000 end-users across the state, including the occasional iPad-wielding clinician.
Health experts have warned that Australia's national $466.7 million e-health records system is being rushed and lacks a consumer focus.
The health and wellbeing of members of the South Australia Police are at the heart of a new IT project aimed at cutting preventable disease and maintaining a healthy work / life balance among staff.
When Janel Wood's 9-year-old son recently began experiencing migraines, the working mother decided to try a new company health care program that allowed her to communicate with a doctor through videoconferencing, voice over IP, and instant messaging.
The Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) has come out in support of the Federal Government’s $466.7 million commitment to personally controlled electronic health records.