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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wed 20th October 2010
Hospitals are becoming more and more like villages, but it’s proving to be a double-edged sword. Ancillary services like dry-cleaners, cafes and pharmacies are familiar fixtures in most hospitals, making it easier for patients and staff to gain access to essential services.
However, the “hospital village” creates as many problems as it solves, said Professor Ian Forbes, Director of the Research Unit Group for Health Architecture and Planning in the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building at the University of Technology in Sydney...
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Fri 15th October 2010
Dr John Bennett is set to embark on a big job. As incoming chair of the ehealth national standing committee at the Royal Australian College of GPs he will oversee extensions to the functionality of Clinical Audit Tool (CAT) the college offers to GPs.
“It will allow a medical practice to audit clinical data and help identify patients and populations that are prone to serious disease and illness,” Mr Bennett said.
Speaking exclusively to eHealthSpace.org prior to the recent GP10 conference held by the RACGP in Cairns, Mr...
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Thu 14th October 2010
It’s estimated that every year $2.5 trillion is lost around the world due to inefficient healthcare practices. That’s right, trillions of dollars. The figure comes from global research conducted by IBM as part of its Smarter Planet initiative.
Judy Anderson, IBM’s manager of government relations sat down with eHealthSpace.org to discuss where this waste is happening and how ehealth services can help.
“Our research into wastage found that $2.5 trillion was essentially being wasted around the globe in the healthcare sector because of...
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Mon 20th September 2010
The federal government’s commitment to online consultation funding has failed to spark wider interest among clinicians for the development of real-time telehealth services.
One of the primary roadblocks to telehealth remains the lack of Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) item numbers for teleconsulting.
Telehealth is often viewed as solution for regional and remote communities where clinicians can examine patients over videoconference or telephone connections. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has previously described...
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Mon 20th September 2010
The World Computer Congress kicks off this week at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Southbank. Taking centre stage at the Congress is ehealth, which will be covered as part of the ‘Treat IT’ stream and will feature high profile speakers including Bill Vargas, chief information officer from the Childrens Hospital at Westmead, and Phil Gurney, from the Australian e-health Research Centre.
Mr Vargas will speak about what is required from a consumer’s perspective when moving beyond a hospital’s single electronic healthcare record,...
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Wed 15th September 2010
The Northern Territory has over 100 small communities scattered across its landmass. Add to that a highly mobile populace and you have a recipe for poor healthcare records.
To combat this problem, the NT government has developed a personal, portable electronic healthcare record for its citizens.
NTHealth chief information officer Stephen Moo told CHIK Services’ Health-E-Nation conference last week the territory’s electronic healthcare record currently has 35,000 citizens enrolled across 104 healthcare centres. Three primary healthcare systems...
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Wed 15th September 2010
The Aged Care sector is exploring alternatives to Microsoft, with open source and cloud computing on the cards. Joshua Gliddon reports.
Last year the aged care sector had a shock. Overnight it found that it was no longer eligible for the discounts it had traditionally received for Microsoft software and services. Aged care is an area where funding is tight so this news prompted the sector’s representative body, the Aged Care Industry IT Council, to take a look at alternatives. “We looked at open source, and in particular Open Office,...
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