SA Pathology heads to the cloud for the next phase of EPLIS

SA Pathology has signed a $25 million, seven-year contract renewal with Cerner for its statewide Enterprise Pathology Laboratory Information System (EPLIS), which will see the statewide public pathology provider move to a cloud-hosted, managed services environment. The renewed contract will include Cerner’s remote … [read more]

PowerHealth Solutions certified for Medicare web services for in-hospital claims

Hospital billing and costing systems specialist PowerHealth Solutions has received its notice of integration (NOI) for claiming through Medicare’s new web services. PowerHealth’s enterprise-level patient billing system, PowerBilling and Revenue Collection (PBRC-IE), is now web-services functional for bulk billing … [read more]

Time called for the last time on image-based prescribing: DoH

The Australian Department of Health has reminded prescribers and dispensers for what it says is the final time that image-based prescribing will come to an end on December 31. The temporary measure was introduced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to allow prescribers to send a photo or fax of a prescription to pharmacists … [read more]

Victoria to roll out Health Information Exchange to link pathology data

The Victorian Department of Health has gone to market for a commercial off the shelf Health Information Exchange (HIE) to allow the sharing of pathology data across the Victorian public healthcare system. The HIE will support DH’s pathology reform program of work, which intends to consolidate existing public hospital … [read more]