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Australian health reform and ehealth: Jane Halton keynote video and slides
Thu 5th April 2012
Jane Halton PSM, secretary of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, spoke at CHIK Services’ Health-e-Nation 2012 conference in March, sharing her insights as Australia’s national health records system moves closer to a reality.  "More capability is being deployed on this project than many things I have seen in health. We are building something that is important for the future," she said. Members of eHealthspace.org can view Ms Halton's keynote video and slideshow below. Related news stories: No ehealth Big...   more

Gillard announces aged care shake-up
Fri 20th April 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced today a 10 year plan aimed at reshaping the delivery of aged care in Australia. The $3.7 billion Living Longer Living Better package is focused on increasing access to home-delivered care, augmenting funding and access to residential care, and addressing the sector’s workforce shortages.The main changes include an increase in Home Care packages from 60,000 individuals currently funded to 100,000, and new means-testing arrangements beginning in July 2014. There will also be annual and lifetime caps...   more

Managing Medications with PCEHR: David Freemantle Health-e-Nation 2012 slides
Thu 5th April 2012
David Freemantle, general manager enterprise solutions, Fred IT Group (one of 12 wave sites for the national PCEHR in Australia) provided an update on progress to audiences at CHIK’s Health-e-Nation 2012 conference.   more

Supporting shared care: Mal Thatcher Health-e-Nation 2012 slides
Thu 5th April 2012
Mal Thatcher, CIO at Mater Health Brisbane, provided an update on progress to audiences at CHIK’s Health-e-Nation 2012 conference. Mater is one of 12 wave sites for the national PCEHR in Australia.     more

AMA opt-out plan attempts PCEHR resuscitation
Mon 30th January 2012
The Australian Medical Association joined the chorus of calls for an opt-out model of PCEHR consumer adoption. In a submission to the Senate Committee inquiry on the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) system, the AMA cites examples from Australia and overseas which indicate opt-in systems can result in participation rates as low as 10 per cent of consumers. The AMA has joined other organisations including the Consumers Health Forum in pushing for an opt-out model. In addition to poor consumer adoption, the association says...   more

NEHTA halts PCEHR pilot sites
Tue 24th January 2012
The National E-Health Transition Authority has provoked fresh doubts about the $467 million PCEHR project after it formally halted most of its pilot ehealth sites today.NEHTA chief executive Peter Fleming announced it had temporarily paused implementation of Primary Care desktop development due to a range of software incompatibilities. Affected pilots include the Primary Care eHealth Network sites of Metro North Brisbane Medicare Local, Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local, Hunter Urban Medicare Local and Accoras (Brisbane South). Also affected...   more

Seasons Greetings
Fri 23rd December 2011
The eHealthspace.org team would like to wish you a healthy and safe Christmas and happy New Year. We're taking a break for a few weeks and will resume regular publishing on 16 January and our RSS newsfeeds will continue to populate the site. Thank you for supporting us in 2011 and we look forward to continuing the conversation in 2012. Mark Jones, Editor, eHealthspace.org     more

Brumby tempts health sector with iPad promise
Fri 12th November 2010
The Victorian Labor Party has pledged to give an Apple iPad to every doctor working in the state hospital system as part of its $1.5bn new health policy called ‘Let’s Put People First.’ The iPad announcement was a line item buried in an overall series of announcements that will see the the Labor Party recruiting more than 2800 new health workers and clinicians over the next two years. But there’s a rub: the Victorian people will have to endorse the new policy by re-electing the state Labor government on November 27. Premier John...   more

What can the iPad do for medicine?
Tue 9th November 2010
A recent paper in the British Medical Journal asks the question: what can the iPad do for medicine? The paper surveys the security aspects of the iPad, concluding that remote wiping is an adequate security provision (although, it must be said, that remote wiping entails subscribing to Apple's MobileMe service, which runs to around $A100 per year).  The BMJ also concludes that the iPad - and, presumably, the raft of tablet devices that will follow it into the market, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab, recently released in Australia - has...   more

iSoft exec jousts with scheduling from 'middle ages'
Tue 2nd November 2010
Industrialised nations are wasting millions of dollars on inefficient patient scheduling systems, a scenario described by a senior health executive as reminiscent of the middle ages. Hugo Schellens, CEO of Belgium-based UltraGenda, was in Sydney last week following the company's acquisition by iSoft in February.  The company's software is used by 120 European hospitals for patient appointment scheduling, a function that underpins the operation of health organisations. According to Mr Schellens the majority of enterprise health...   more
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