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e-Health - Australia
Articles and resources relating to e-Health trends and issues in Australia.
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- Delivering Health Services remotely using broadband technologies
- Paper presented by David Hansen - CEO, Australian E-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO ICT Centre, at CeBIT, Sydney, 22-24 May 2012.
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- e-Health - Australia (Archive)
- Archived articles and resources relating to e-Health trends and issues in Australia - 2005
Added: 6 December 2005
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- National Partnership Agreement on E-Health - Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
- The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) held its 28th meeting in Brisbane on 7 December 2009. During that meeting an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the States and Territories was tabled for the National Partnership on E-Health. This agreement will contribute to an improved health system for all Australians by transforming the way health information is used to plan, manage and deliver healthcare services through the development of an electronic health (e-health) capability.
Added: 10 December 2009
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- Australian Government's e-Health Information Portal
- The national e-health initiative is the first time that Australian governments have embraced end-to-end integrated e-health. This website is jointly published by Australia's Federal, State and Territory health authorities to help explore the e-health concept and to keep up to date with the latest innovations.
Added: 12 March 2010;
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- Healthcare Identifiers
- National E-Health Transition Authority. "One of the key foundations for a national approach to e-health will be a standard process across the health sector to accurately identify everybody involved in a healthcare transaction. This includes the person receiving healthcare, the person providing healthcare, and the place where the care is given..." The Australian government is introducing healthcare Identifiers to make this process happen.
Added: 12 March 2010;
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- eHealth measures missing the point
- By David Glance. IT news, May 21, 2013. "Opinion: When will the PCEHR lead to patient outcomes? One of the great challenges for eHealth is to convince governments, healthcare organisations, practitioners and the general public that it is worth the investment. This involves first of all working out whether anyone is actually using the technology, then determining what they are using it for and finally trying to judge whether this use has any positive outcome. These evaluations are all aspects of what is called “meaningful use” and apply to any technology, not just technology in healthcare..."
Added: 21 May 2013;
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- Gov invests $10m in another eHealth initiative
- End of life plans will provide doctors and carers with information on how people wish to be cared for at the end of their life, by Stephanie McDonald, Computerworld, 10 May, 2013. "The Federal Government will invest $10 million in an eHealth initiative which will enable people to provide information on the health care they wish to receive at the end of their life. The Advance Care Directives will be stored on the controversial Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system..."
Added: 13 May 2013;
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- Telehealth and the NBN myth
- By David Glance. IT News, May 9, 2013. "Opinion: New funding for old innovation. Of all of the many promises the NBN is supposed to fulfill, its role in the delivery of electronic health is probably the most contentious. Society has a very real problem of escalating health costs for services struggling to meet the increasing burden of ageing, chronic disease and obesity. Alongside this is the promise of improved efficiencies brought about by computerisation and faster broadband networks..."
Added: 9 May 2013;
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- NBN telehealth projects injected with $20.3m in funding
- The projects will demonstrate new healthcare models for the elderly, by Stephanie McDonald. Computerworld, 8 May, 2013. "The Federal Government has allocated $20.3 million to nine telehealth projects that utilise the National Broadband Network (NBN) to trial new healthcare delivery methods. The telehealth projects include a CSIRO project, which has received $2.748 million in funding, for early intervention services that allows specialists in metro hospitals to identify eye disease via video conferencing in remote Western Australian and the Torres Strait communities..."
Added: 9 May 2013;
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- Telehealth vendors not fazed by NBN debate
- Faster broadband could reduce ballooning health IT costs, says Frost & Sullivan, by Adam Bender. Computerworld, 29 April, 2013. "The NBN will be a boon to Australian healthcare regardless of which political party has its way on the final technology approach for delivery, officials from health IT vendors said at a lunch in Sydney. The officials indicated that either the Labor party’s fibre-to-the-premises or the Coalition’s fibre-to-the-node plan could offer the minimum speeds and reliability levels required by telehealth and other bandwidth-intensive health IT activities..."
Added: 2 May 2013;
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- Aust govt justifies insourcing bungled IBM e-health project
- By Josh Taylor. ZDNet, December 11, 2012. "Summary: The National E-Health Transition Authority has said that the work IBM was doing for the e-health project before being dumped can now be done internally by the organisation, thanks to advancements in technology..."
Added: 13 December 2012;
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- Aust gov boosts aged care tele-health
- By Shahida Sweeney. FutureGov, 21 November 2012. "Delivering integrated services for senior citizens is under the spotlight under a US$17 million (AUD$17 million) initiative that seeks to connect aged care with nationwide health and hospital systems. This integrated healthcare service delivery programme, unveiled by the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Mark Butler, supports a raft of funding grants, including innovations in tele-health..."
Added: 22 November 2012;
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- IBM loses key e-health contract
- By Joshua Gliddon. IT News, October 23, 2012. "Human Services steps in as provider. The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has sacked IBM as provider of the National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) after it failed to deliver the service on time. The NASH service designed and built by IBM was intended to provide a secure means for clinicians to connect with the Federal Government’s $467 million Personally Controlled Electronic Healthcare Record (PCEHR) system..."
Added: 23 October 2012;
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- Health eTowns TelehealthNT Network project launched
- nbn.gov.au, Published on August 1, 2012. "The Digital Regions Initiative Health eTowns TelehealthNT Network project has been launched by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy. The Health eTowns TelehealthNT Network project is jointly funded by the Commonwealth and Northern Territory Governments and is part of a $20 million Digital Regions Initiative..."
Added: 1 August 2012;
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- 1st Available
- Enables Australians to have the convenience of making their healthcare appointments wherever they may be. Through 1stAvailable.com.au anyone can find and book all their healthcare appointments, from one place on their mobile or PC, even after hours.
Added: 6 July 2012;
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- 1stAvailable launches Sydney online health booking service
- By Peter Dinham. IT Wire, 5 July 2012. "Sydneysiders now have free access to a new online healthcare appointment service with the launch today by 1stAvailable of its booking portal where users needing an urgent visit to their doctor, dentist or chiropractor or other health practitioner, can search for information on the first available appointment, including last-minute cancellations..."
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- eHealth.gov.au
- "eHealth.gov.au is your gateway to Australia's personally controlled electronic health record system, linking you to information about eHealth records and the system itself. From July 2012, people seeking healthcare in Australia will be able to register for their own personally controlled electronic health record – an eHealth record. Your eHealth record will be a secure online summary of your key healthcare information. You will control what goes into your eHealth record, who is allowed to access it, and who can see which information..."
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- New eHealth 'learning centre' goes live
- An online 'learning centre' which details how the Australian Government’s new electronic health record system will work for patients and practitioners has been launched. Minister for Health, Media Release, 11 May 2012. "Health Minister Tanya Plibersek today launched an online 'learning centre' which details how the Gillard Government's new electronic health record system will work for patients and practitioners..."
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