Thursday, October 31, 2024
The Victorian Department of Health in Australia has accepted 26 recommendations from an Expert Advisory Committee, developing a Health Services Plan outlining the key steps to be taken toward a “more connected system” that focuses on delivering “the right care, at the right time, in the right place” for residents. […]
We recently caught up with Kate Renzenbrink, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (CCIO) at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (Eye and Ear) in Melbourne. Kate shared insight around recent digital projects, priorities, and the wider digital health landscape in Australia. Kate recently started working for the Eye and Ear […]
Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has announced the launch of a new collaboration on digital tech, informatics and data science in Australia. The Australian Council of Senior Academic Leaders in Digital Health is described as “a national, cross-university network advocating for the advancement of digital health”, harnessing the “combined […]
The Australian Government has highlighted the publication of the National Healthcare Identifiers Roadmap from the Australian Digital Health Agency, running until 2028 and described as a strategic plan to drive uptake and encourage use of healthcare identifiers on a more consistent basis, to help ensure certainty about who is being […]
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has published a notice highlighting intention to source solutions and services in support of the vision to “transform national infrastructure and move to a contemporary, structured data-rich ecosystem capable of connecting systems across settings and supporting real-time access to information for the patient and […]
The Australian Digital Health Agency has published the Australian National Healthcare Interoperability Plan up to 2028, focusing on high quality data, digitally enabled models of care, and sharing of information across the healthcare system. The plan outlines healthcare interoperability as involving “an ecosystem of connected providers that conveniently and seamlessly […]
The federal government of Australia has signed a statement of collaboration with the United Kingdom and United States which will see Australia take part in discussions around green procurement, with particular focus on encouraging suppliers to disclose carbon emissions and setting targets for emission reductions. Australia reportedly estimates that its […]
In Australia, the introduction of a new Da Vinci XI robotic surgery system at the Royal Adelaide Hospital is hoped to provide access for patients to “minimally invasive procedures” such as “complex head and neck operations” and colorectal surgery. The hospital expects to complete up to 250 robotic surgeries per […]
A $50 million grant from the Albanese government for the Australian Artificial Heart Frontiers Program will help to develop and commercialise its “Total Artificial Heart”, with hopes to harness technology to “halve deaths from heart failure” globally. The program brings together stakeholders including five universities and three clinical partners, to […]
A study published in Nurse Education in Practice has evaluated the preparedness of Australian nursing students for the digitalised clinical environment, carrying out an integrative review of the literature and highlighting the need for “a professional digital literacy competency standard framework embedded into nursing curricula”. Setting out to tackle “limited […]
