e-health - News, Features, and Slideshows

• My Health Record opt-out window opens

  ​Australians will have a My Health Record created for them by the end of the year, unless they opt-out during a three month window which starts today.

• HCF invests in telehealth startup to boost rural services

  Not-for-profit health fund, HFC has taken a 15 per cent stake in GP2U, a telehealth startup that allows for remote medical consultations using videoconferencing.

• Healthcare firms biggest target for cyber crooks

  ​The global healthcare sector experienced more than three times the number of security incidents than the average industry and is twice as likely to encounter data theft, according to a report.

• Dynamic model predicts a patient’s mortality from electronic medical records

  Electronic medical records are not only useful as a central repository for storing and updating information but also provide rich sources of data that can be analysed and mined to improve patient care.

• Evolving citizen portals to enable digital government

  Why some agency portals have achieved poor outcomes and what needs to be done to improve them as the transition to digital government steps up a notch.

• Reform Commission lays out e-health recommendations

  There is increasing frustration and mounting cynicism with the pace of action on implementing a national e-health platform, according to a National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report released today.

• Robots improve safety, efficiency at Thai hospital

  A Thai hospital famous for medical tourism and celebrated for its use of new technologies is turning to robotics to become more efficient and improve patient safety.

• Need a Hospital Bed? We’re Expecting You

  The Australian e-Health Research Centre has created an innovative new forecasting tool to ease backlogs in hospital emergency departments

Whitepapers about e-health

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  Molina Healthcare Ramps Up Fast for Claims Processing Spikes with Vblock

  Read about how Molina Healthcare managed to increase application performance and speed provisioning while reducing data centre footprint by implementing agile infrastructure to meet increased demand for services.