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General practices located outside the electronic prescribing communities of interest regions are being asked to wait until pharmacies in their region are able to accept eScripts before issuing them. The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has asked GP software vendors to suspend access to ePrescribing functionalit … [read more] |
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Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Women's Hospital and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have all gone live with the Parkville precinct's new electronic medical record. The $124 million system went live on Saturday, with the three health services joining Royal Children’s Hospital in a big bang implementation. Royal Melbourne Hospital CEO … [read more] |
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Along with “novel coronavirus”, “social distancing” and “hydroxychloroquine”, “contact tracing apps” will go down as one of the most notable additions to the pandemic lexicon. They have certainly proved controversial as privacy concerns run headlong into public health necessities, and few if any have proved overly useful … [read more] |
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Telehealth and older patients, $18.5b Livongo and Teledoc merger, $16.4b Siemens Healthineers and Varian buy, telemedicine and COVID cancer backlog, Apple-Google COVID tracing in the UK and US, FDA approval for Samsung Health Monitor app, US Medicare telehealth extension, patient identifier ban, EMRs and physician burnout … [read more] |
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