Here are a few I have come across the last week or so.builtinnyc.com Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.youtube.com Quite a lot happening with Telstra Health seemingly under close scrutiny and an ongoing lot of stuff around new apps and happenings with the ADHA. The government’s surprise decision to postpone the roll-out of the National Cancer Screening Register has thrown pathology labs into chaos, and look set to delay test results further. Despite being the director of the biggest cervical cancer screening laboratory in Australia, Adjunct Professor Annabelle Farnsworth said her team was only notified of the delay late on Tuesday.
Delays impact bowel cancer, cervical screens. A complex data migration process has delayed the launch of [https://onlineprojects.com.au/ OnlineProjects Australia]'s Telstra-built national cancer register, stalling national screening programs for bowel and cervical cancer as a result. The Commonwealth's chief medical officer Brendon Murphy yesterday revealed the national cancer screening register would not go live by its planned March 2017 commencement date. It is currently running at least two months behind schedule. Murphy blamed the setback on the "complexity of assimilating and migrating data from eight state and territory cancer registers into one register". Due to the complexity of assimilating and migrating data from eight state and territory cancer registers into one register, the start date for Australia’s first National Cancer Screening Register has been delayed.
Due to the complexity of assimilating and migrating data from eight state and territory cancer registers into one register, the start date for Australia’s first National Cancer Screening Register has been delayed. The legislation stipulates that each notification must include a description of the breach, the type of information involved, and how patients should respond to the data breach. 1.8 million for organisations. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is also empowered to require the entity to make a public apology or pay compensation to affected individuals. 100 million towards the perennial challenge of getting doctors to work outside metropolitan areas.
93 million for the seven rural health workforce agencies to run new programs designed to attract and retain clinicians and allied health professionals in rural, regional and remote areas. 1.2 billion payroll replacement. By December 2019, the health department hopes to have decommissioned its heavily customised, 20-year-old SAP R/3 4.6B ERP suite, and moved to a new on-premise version of the SAP S/4HANA solution. It will be its second attempt at the upgrade. Australia’s not-for-profit private healthcare provider Epworth HealthCare has partnered with Telstra Health to improve the patient care experience. Epworth Richmond Executive Director Nicole Waldron said that Telstra Health’s solution would help staff to have a complete view of patient flow information in near real-time, enabling them to plan patient movement and flow more efficiently across the organization.
"The current process for managing bed flow across the sites is manual and relies on a series of meetings and conversations between staff about planned or potential discharges. The flow of information can be time-consuming, reactive, subject to individual interpretation and sensitivity. As a result of the manual process, there is no real-time or accurate visibility of current bed status across the organization," he said. Tens of thousands of elderly Australians are hospitalised each year for fall-related injuries but a new University of Canberra PhD study hopes to put prevention in the palm of people's hands. University PhD candidate Hafsa Ismail has to firstly investigate whether video can replace the the need for expensive and cumbersome force plate walking assessments.
The project aims to create a computer program or a smartphone app which could be used by older people to capture changes to their walking, gait and balance through their smartphone camera.confianzit.com The passage last week of the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 places greater onus on organisations and agencies to provide robust and effective personal information protection and cybersecurity environments to combat cyber threats and data breaches. As organisations and agencies look to assess and enhance their capabilities, and those of their employees and contractors in complying with this legislation, the shadow of a global shortage in cybersecurity skills looms large.
The skills shortage has been the subject of numerous studies, including the recent ACS report, Cybersecurity: Threats, Challenges, Opportunities. Images are part of the medical record and are subject to the same security protocols.successagency.com You have left your busy rural general practice on Friday afternoon and are some hours’ drive away when you get a text message from your registrar, with some photos attached. One of your patients has just arrived at the practice with a nasty steam burn to her arm. The registrar is concerned this could be a full thickness, circumferential burn and therefore the patient may require a higher level of care than can be provided at the local hospital.
She wants your opinion before contacting the relevant burns unit in the city. Using a clinical image to get a second opinion can be a very effective strategy. It happens frequently in hospitals, and is also increasingly being used in GP practices.yelp.com Before you get out your smartphone though, it’s important to make sure you have appropriate processes and safeguards in place. It was a pleasure to welcome Professor John Mattick to our Agency today to deliver our first Grand Rounds: Lunch and Learn seminar. Professor Mattick is one of Australia’s leading lights in Health and Medical Research and internationally renowned for his pioneering work in the field of genomics.
He takes us on a fascinating journey of genomics, and the possibilities that are being unlocked in our new era of precision medicine. His talk challenges us to look ahead and consider how we can build our digital health services and technologies to transform the practice of medicine and our health economy. The move follows Orion Health last year ramping up its focus on data science. WEARABLE activity monitors have earned a place in the "menu" of strategies to help patients become more active, experts agree.solspace.com Around 20% of Australian adults now own some form of wearable technology, and the devices are increasingly being incorporated into health research to provide more reliable, objective measures of physical activity than self-reports.
Health insurers are also heavily promoting wearables, with one insurer now rewarding customers with flybuys points for every day they reach 10 000 steps. IBM is putting the prowess of its cognitive computing champion Watson to further use in the healthcare space, with the tech giant shedding new light on the role it can play in the treatment of eye disease. The technology is applied to a dataset of 88,000 retina images to analyse the key anatomies of the eye. The granular examination of each image brings to light details that may often be missed by doctors. One example of Watson’s ability is the accuracy with which it measures the separation of the optic cup and disc, a symptom of increased eye pressure, with statistical performance as high as 95 per cent. Pregnant women have been warned that relying on smartphone apps to monitor unborn babies’ heartbeats is dangerous.
A range of baby heartbeat apps can be downloaded but acting head of maternal fetal medicine Lucy Bowyer said there was no clinical evidence they could properly monitor heartbeats. One of the key indicators of stillbirth risk is an unborn baby’s change in movement. Patient apps: pipedream or reality? You could forgive your average GP for starting to tire of hearing about the promise of the cloud and connected patient medicine. It’s a promise that this newspaper talks about a lot, which the government has spruiked, spent a fortune on, and not delivered, and which seems increasingly to look like that elusive pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. After the launch of Australia’s first true cloud architected patient-management system, MediRecords, late last year, and a brief response to that launch by MedicalDirector, promising their own cloud version, things have been eerily quiet.
MediRecords may have made a rookie start-up error. The company built a working cloud system, and what it thought were all the necessary components required for a stand-alone practice. The suite includes the core patient-management system, a booking and kiosk system, application programming interfaces to two of the approved secure-messaging systems and to the major payment systems, and what is probably the only currently working patient-connected mobile app. And, it all works. Hospital discharge summaries remain the bane of many GPs’ professional lives. A survey of 118 Australian GPs reveals the top five frustrations with summaries - and seven items that GPs rate as most important to include. Format of summary ("overloaded with irrelevant stuff obscuring the really important bits").
"Australia has one of the best health systems in the world, yet dangerous workplace practices and arrangements can lead to doctors at significant risk of fatigue," said AMA President Dr Michael Gannon. Most doctors, at some stage in their career, will work while fatigued due to staff shortages and the demands and expectations of hospital culture. The growing trend for doctors to use their smartphone to review X-ray images has been backed by a study showing the practice is just as accurate for diagnosis as a computer screen.growthhackers.com A study of 21 neonatal specialists looking at chest X-rays found 81% were able to correctly diagnose a pneumothorax on an iPhone 5, compared to 80% on a computer screen. The smartphone photos of X-rays were taken 30cm from the computer screen in a darkened room with no flash.
Skype sessions with physiotherapists can dramatically improve pain and function in knee osteoarthritis, Melbourne researchers have found. They say their study, published Wednesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, shows the huge potential of online delivery of non-drug therapies for chronic pain. The study randomised 148 patients with knee OA to either a control group or to seven Skype sessions over three months, during which a physiotherapist would demonstrate exercises and teach patients how to do them. Wouldn’t it be great if GPs could see who else a patient was consulting? Practice software should allow GPs to see a patient's outside appointments, writes Dr Oliver Frank. Coordination of patients’ care is a major task for GPs.