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• 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.

• Govt to invest $485M in e-health reboot

  The federal government’s personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) scheme will be renamed ‘myHealth Record’ and doctors will trial an opt-out model, as part of a $485 million plan announced on Sunday.

• NSW government vows to invest $300M in e-health

  The Baird government has vowed to pump $300 million over the next four years into e-health projects if it is re-elected on Saturday.
  

• CIO year in review

  2014 was an eventful year for CIOs, with many starting new initiatives in mobility, wearables, machine learning and tapping into open data. Many CIOs also decided to change jobs and move to greener pastures.

• UNSW researchers aim to secure smartwatches for e-health

  Researchers at the University of New South Wales have been awarded a $322,800 grant to conduct research into boosting the security of wearable technology.

• Telstra enters e-health space

  Telstra (ASX: TLS) has launched an e-health business division called Telstra Health as it looks to connect patients with doctors via video conferencing, said group executive of retail, Gordon Ballantyne.

• Digitising healthcare: The state of e-health in Australia

  We look at several examples of how digitisation is transforming the healthcare industry.

• Federal IT Leaders Seek Support From Developers for EHR Adoption

  The White House is appealing to developers to join the open source community working to expand adoption of interoperable digital health records through its Blue Button initiative.

• eHealth NSW gets busy on technology rollouts

  eHealth NSW CIO, Michael Walsh, and newly appointed chief clinical information officer, John Lambert, have laid out some of the technology projects they are focusing on this year, as part of the state’s $400 million e-health strategy.

• New e-health dashboard helps GPs benchmark performance

  A new dashboard for e-health measures has been developed to help GPs benchmark their goals in primary healthcare against others nationally.

• E-health record should be opt-out: Review

  The Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) should be renamed 'My Health Record' — MyHR — and shift to an opt-out model, according to a review of the system commissioned by the federal health minister, Peter Dutton.