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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about e-Health issues and implementations.
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- Chronic Healthcare Transformed in Mildura
- Medical care in Mildura has been transformed thanks to a broadband-based technology that is helping hospital patients monitor and manage their health in the comfort of their own homes.
Added: 9 January 2008
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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.
Added: 8 June 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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- e-Health - Canada
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to e-health in Canada.
Added: 12 December 2005
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- e-Health - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about e-health trends and issues in the United Kingdom.
Added: 15 December 2005
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- Electronic Health Records - National Health Service, United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about progress in electronic health records in order to improve patient care.
Added: 24 November 2005
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- Geelong leads new Frontier in Health Technology
- Geelong Hospital's Intensive Care Unit is leading Australia as the only Australian ICU to have introduced cutting edge Smartcard technology to patients' bedsides.
Added: 10 August 2006
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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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- Stroke Telemedicine in Victoria
- The Victorian Stroke Telemedicine project has commenced with contracts completed and working groups commencing.
Added: 24 August 2010
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- Victoria - Electronic referral is taking off
- The number of electronic referrals (e-referrals) sent and received between Victorian health and human services agencies nearly doubled in 2006-07. Additionally, the number of health and human services agencies able to send and receive e-referrals nearly doubled.
Added: 27 March 2008
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- HealthSMART: Victoria's Whole-of-Health ICT Strategy
- Department of Health. "This site provides information about HealthSMART, Victoria's whole-of-health information and communication technology (ICT) strategy. HealthSMART is a seven-year $360 million strategy to modernise and replace ICT systems throughout the Victorian Public Healthcare Sector. The ICT improvements provide healthcare agencies with the tools required to meet the growing healthcare demands expected in the future..."
Added: 12 March 2010;
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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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- 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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- 'Patients want an online Amazon-style NHS'
- Publicservice.co.uk, 19 April 2013. "The NHS has been told it must become more like Amazon, Lastminute.com and other online private firms to meet the demands of patients. A new report from trade body Intellect said the NHS needed to respond to a "growing trend and appetite" from patients, 90 per cent of whom would use online services if available..."
Added: 22 April 2013;
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- Video conferencing helps tuberculosis patients
- Vivid Solutions has rolled out a pilot to trial videophones in the home, By Randal Jackson - Wellington. Computerworld, Tuesday, 9 April, 2013. "Vivid Solutions has rolled out a pilot to trial videophones in the home to meet the World Health Organisation requirement that sufferers of tuberculosis - a highly communicable disease - must be observed taking their medication..."
Added: 9 April 2013;
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- New Zealand streamlines e-health with robotics technology
- By Shahida Sweeney. FutureGov, 19 March 2013. "In a first such project for e-health, New Zealand's Gore Hospital is rolling out robotics technology to streamline healthcare for home-bound patients and the elderly across remote areas..."
Added: 21 March 2013;
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- The limits to telehealth
- By Howard Solomon. IT World Canada, 12 March 2013. "A British study has firmly concluded that there's not much evidence to support one of telehealth's touted benefits. The marriage of medicine and the Internet to create telehealth has fostered a mini-industry around the world with seemingly boundless opportunities – the ability to save health institutions money, to save frail patients or those far away from a hospital or doctor travel time and to improve patient outcomes..."
Added: 14 March 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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- New tools secure mobile health data
- By John Pulley. NextGov, 12 December 2012. "The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today released several online tools to help health-care providers use mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet computers and laptops without risking breaches of patient health information. The tools are part of an HHS education initiative to help providers and other health-care organizations better secure protected health information on mobile devices. The multipronged initiative also includes a variety of videos, fact sheets, FAQs and posters..."
Added: 13 December 2012;
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- Where ER Doctors Work Entirely Via Webcam
- By Lindsay Abrams. The Atlantic, December 11 2012. "In South Dakota, long-distance doctoring is bringing health care to rural communities. Every day -- and through the night -- in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, doctors report to work in a hospital where there are no patients. And in over 70 rural communities in four states, patients stricken by heart attacks, or injured in car accidents, or facing other urgent health issues are rushed to an E.R. where there are no doctors. Or, more precisely, there's one doctor. More often than not, he or she is trained in family practice, not emergency care. And if the call's coming in the middle of the night, he legally has a half-hour to get out of bed and report in..."
Added: 13 December 2012;
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- Queensland Health - eHealth Program - in pdf format (1560kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Report to Parliament 4 : 2012-13. Queensland Audit Office. "The eHealth Program was established by Queensland Health in 2007 to improve capability and delivery of state health services through information and communication technology (ICT). The eHealth Program consists of multiple projects that aim to expand existing and develop new specialist clinical and administrative systems, and implement an integrated electronic medical record (ieMR) system at selected hospitals. Delivery of the eHealth Program was divided into two stages, or tranches of work, to be implemented progressively over four years, ending in 2012. The total approved funding for the eHealth Program was $466 million. As part of the National Health Reform Agreement, the Australian Government is encouraging and funding States and Territories to integrate their electronic public hospital inpatient records with the national Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR)..."
Added: 6 December 2012;
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This category last updated: 13 May 2013
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