Australasia
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Wed 19th June 2013
Barry O’Farrell’s NSW government has handed down an infrastructure-heavy 2013/14 budget, with lots of money to hospitals but little targeted to eHealth.
NSW Budget
Budget: Delivered 18 Jun 13 by Treasurer Mike Baird (Liberal) Deficit - by $329 million
Total health budget: $14 billion
Key announcements in health, eHealth and IT:
The NSW Government has delivered an infrastructure-heavy budget, delivering roads, rail and civil infrastructure including $1.2 billion over four years to hospitals.
$220 million for extra...
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Tue 18th June 2013
Yesterday, dozens of attendees at the CSIRO/ Macquarie University Digital Productivity in the Workplace of the Future Conference discussed strategies for formally integrating telework into their organisations.
Macquarie University established its Australia Anywhere Working Research Network (AAWRN) last year to research the impact of telework on productivity, carbon footprints and employment accessibility, and to understand how employees can move to an ‘anywhere working model’ from a traditional 9-5 Mon-Fri work week.
But for nearly two...
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Wed 12th June 2013
With six of the eight state and territory budgets now published, we look at the state of health, eHealth and IT budgets in Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT, NT, Queensland and South Australia in the coming year.
VICTORIA
Budget: Delivered 7 May 13 by Treasurer Michael O’Brien (Liberal)
Surplus budget - by $225 million
Total health budget: $14 billion
Key announcements in health, eHealth and IT:
High investment in health infrastructure – particularly hospitals ($1.2 billion over four years, $629 million for new capital...
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Tue 11th June 2013
Payroll and rostering are a challenge for most organisations – but Bupa Care Services Australia recently took out the ITAC 2013 award for “Best IT Implementation over 650 places” for a new pay and rostering system for their 6,500 employees who include caregivers, maintenance staff, housekeepers, nurses and senior managers at over 60 sites.
Helen Sims, Payroll Manager at Bupa, says that the organisation has replaced the previous paper-based timesheet system with a ‘biometric’ identity system for staff, so that working hours can be tracked...
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Wed 5th June 2013
PCEHR registrations are already at 250,000 and Department of Health and Ageing Deputy Secretary Rosemary Huxtable told tonight’s meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs that the government should get close to the stated aim of 500,000 registrations by the end of this month.
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, who is the Shadow Minister for Ageing and Shadow Minister for Mental Health, admitted she didn’t have an ehealth record herself, and asked why the increase had been so rapid.
Huxtable said that the increase can be...
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Wed 5th June 2013
Delays to the rollout of the NBN may affect recruitment for some of the telehealth trials announced earlier this year.
Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council (ACIITC) chair Suri Ramanathan said that, with a smaller number of households connected to the NBN than anticipated, it has become more difficult for organisers to find eligible participants.
“People are excited about participating in the trials, but unfortunately on the practical side, the NBN delivery dates keep slipping out so the actual NBN footprint is very small,” he says...
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Tue 4th June 2013
Hugh Geiger, the co-founder of Brisbane-based technology company Ollo mobile, got into telehealth device design after doing a thorough web search for a safety device for an elderly relative.
Geiger, an entrepreneur with a background in software development and his Ollo mobile co-founder, Ken Macken, who has a background in automation and robotics, won the inaugural Start-up Pitch award at Sydney’s CeBIT trade show last week.
The pair have developed a prototype of a tiny, wearable mobile phone supported by a cloud-hosted call management...
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Wed 29th May 2013
Over 100 students in China and a few dozen in Australia will this year complete a new Health Informatics course taught by Mark Brommeyer, an international eHealth Consultant, working with NEHTA as eHealth Supply Chain Reform Manager.
Fifty students will attend the first course, which starts at Nankai University in Beijing next week, with another hundred students attending courses in Guangzhou and Shanghai in coming months.
Brommeyer, who trained as a nurse and also holds formal education qualifications at both Graduate Diploma and Masters...
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Mon 27th May 2013
A new smartphone app and call centre will be funded by a not-for-profit telco in an innovative business model designed to help people living with disability achieve independence.
Jeenee Mobile was launched this month by Community Connections Australia (CCA) and follows a similar business model and pricing to other Optus resellers such as Boost and Dodo - except that Jeenee’s profits will fund programs for disabled people.
“People living with disability are often the poorest of the poor,” says Jeremy Way, who is the general manager of CCA.
“Our...
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Wed 22nd May 2013
Around 900 indigenous patients at three remote sites will receive specialist-grade eye consultations over the NBN, in a $1.96 million Federal trial using an award-winning web-based Australian software called Remote-I.
The system under trial could reduce in-person ophthalmology consultations by up to 70 percent.
The NBN-enabled Indigenous Tele-Eye Care project will operate in WA’s Greater South Coast and Goldfields-Esperance regions and in the Torres Strait Islands in QLD over the next twelve months.
The software, which can be used by nurses...
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