NZ practice websites victim of malicious hack, SA and WA urgent care

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Wellington PHO and 20 practice websites hit by hacker

Wellington primary health organisation Tū Ora Compass Health and 20 affiliated general practices have had their websites defaced by a malicious hacker and are still offline two weeks later. Tū Ora Compass Health acting CEO Justine Thorpe said the hack had not affected any practice management systems and there is no indication ... [read more]

SA opens priority care centres, WA to go live with urgent care clinics

Two general practices in Adelaide have opened as priority care centres as part of a South Australian trial aimed at diverting low-acuity cases from emergency departments. Western Australia is also shortly to begin its trial of its new urgent care clinic network, with 133 general practices across the state participating in the pilot ... [read more]

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Blog: Hopes high for GP2GP-style record exchange

Pulse+IT headed to HISA's Health Informatics Conference in Melbourne this week, as we are wont to do, and what a smashing event it turned out to be. The focus at HIC is often on the acute care sector and, naturally, health informatics, and there was certainly plenty of that, but we were very pleased with the depth of presentations ... [read more]

International health IT week in review: August 18

NHS spend post-WannaCry, AI accuracy in breast cancer, digital needs for GP capacity, info exchange hampers transitions of care, wearables for diabetes risk, app for GP consults, Imprivata and Microsoft IAM, AI standards needed, Allscripts settles Practice Fusion suit, customising Epic for opioid crisis ... [read more]

HIC 2019: Royal Children's reaping the benefits from its big bang theory

Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital has seen a reduction in its mortality rate of 25 per cent since it went live with its Epic electronic medical record, and has registered similarly impressive figures for avoidable lab tests and medication prescribing and administration errors. While the hospital is not claiming ... [read more]

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HIC 2019: Rural NSW LHDs develop single formulary for eMeds roll-out

eHealth NSW plans to roll out its Cerner electronic medications management (eMeds) to 115 rural sites by the end of 2019, a large increase on the 18 sites across the six rural local health districts (LHDs) originally planned for the same timeframe. The NSW Rural eMeds Project has also seen a single rural medicines formulary ... [read more]

HIC 2019: Pen CS and Healthily team up for health literacy in practice and point of care

Patient education specialist Healthily and population health software vendor Pen CS have teamed up to offer two integrated products aimed at general practices and primary health networks (PHNs). Healthily will provide its GoShare patient education technology integrated with Pen's CAT4 clinical audit tool and its Top Bar clinical ... [read more]

HIC 2019: Attend Anywhere offers platform for free as Healthdirect contract ends

Victorian-headquartered video consulting social enterprise Attend Anywhere is offering its tools and resources to public hospitals and charities in Australia for free following the end of its contract with government-owned directory and telehealth service Healthdirect Australia. Attend Anywhere has provided its telehealth framework ... [read more]

HIC 2019: Nuance to launch Dragon in the cloud with voice on the doctor's smartphone

Nuance Communications plans to launch its new cloud-based Dragon Medical One speech recognition platform for the Australian market beginning next month, enabling greater efficiencies in clinical documentation and the ability to use clinicians' smartphones as a wireless microphone for dictation. Dragon Medical One (DMO) will eventually ... [read more]

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