St Vincent's Melbourne to trial automation in microbiology lab
St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne is to trail new technology to automate the analysis of microbiology lab samples.
St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne is to trail new technology to automate the analysis of microbiology lab samples.
Ensuring the optimum use of resources while providing data and systems to meet the needs of clinical physicians is what Simon Richardson sees as his main task.
People concerned about the privacy implications of a move to transferable electronic health and medical records should not be dissuaded by doubt as the benefits outweigh potential drawbacks, according to health industry executives.
Health industry CIOs have a real opportunity to drive innovation and break down siloes of information in light of the federal government's allocation of $467 million to electronic health records over the next two years.
The Garvan Institute has deployed a new database platform to consolidate and centralise more than 30 separate databases as the medical research organisation moves toward a new information architecture.