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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about e-Health issues and implementations.
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- Broadband network provides in-home healthcare
- Joint media release from Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 29 November 2011. "The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Warren Snowdon, and the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today announced an $8 million trial which will enable chronically ill veterans to have their health monitored by health professionals without leaving their home. Mr Snowdon said the use of in-home telemonitoring technology, combines the best of the National Broadband Network (NBN) high speed broadband with chronic care management to benefit many in our veteran community. “This trial will take advantage of reliable, high-speed and high-capacity broadband capability to change the way health services are delivered to the veteran community and allow veterans to access high-quality health care from home. “Vital statistics will be monitored from home and veterans will also have access to high definition video consultations with their GP or nurse coordinator when required..."
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- Federal Govt flags e-health trial for chronically ill veterans
- The $8 million project will enable 300 chronically ill veterans from NBN connected areas to have their health monitored from home, by Chloe Herrick (Computerworld). CIO, 29 November, 2011. "The Federal Government has flagged a trial of in-house telemonitoring technology for chronically ill veterans via the National Broadband Network (NBN), kicking off in July 2012. Both the veterans’ affairs minister, Warren Snowdon, and communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, announced the $8 million project which will enable 300 chronically ill veterans, from NBN connected areas in Toowoomba, Coffs Harbour, Armidale, Mandurah and Geraldton to have their health monitored without leaving their home..."
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- Information systems a cure for sick hospitals?
- by George Wright. The Age, November 28, 2011. "Recently my son broke his arm quite seriously and so I spent a few tense days in hospital with him while he had his upper arm wired back together. During my stay I was able to witness the workings of a large hospital and I couldn’t help but take an interest in their information systems and processes. I don't know how often an Area Health Service has its technical infrastructure reviewed nor when it was last completed but I would find it interesting to know what the findings and recommendations were. Quite frankly what I saw was archaic, inefficient and created a stressful work environment..."
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- National eHealth portal 1177.se wins Sweden's best public sector website award 2011
- ePractice.eu, 24 November 2011. Country Sweden; Domain eHealth; Topic Health portals, ICT and lifestyle management, Personal Health Systems, Regional/national Health Information Networks. "Sweden's national ehealth portal, 1177.se, received the award of the best public sector website in the context of the annual competition 'Sweden's top 100 sites'. The reason behind this choice, according to the award justification, lies with the fact that the portal takes the best of Swedish healthcare information and advice online, and in a very modern way..."
Added: 24 November 2011;
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- Telstra launches bundled telehealth for rural and regional patients
- Healthcare providers will be offered a $6000 rebate for investing in the device under a $620m Federal Government initiative, by Chloe Herrick. Computerworld, 23 November, 2011. "Telstra has launched two new bundled telehealth offerings aimed at rural and regional healthcare providers under a $620 million Federal Government initiative. Under the initiative, ‘Connecting Health Service with the Future’, the government will provide up-front payments and rebates of about $6000 for doctors who deploy the standalone Telehealth Professional unit, a combination of hardware and software by Polycom..."
Added: 24 November 2011;
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- Feds back off on Jan.1 eHealth standards deadline
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is delaying by 90 days the enforcement deadline by which healthcare providers must roll out a new version of the standard governing how medical transactions are processed. By Lucas Mearian - Framingham. Computerworld, Friday, 18 November, 2011. "... The deadline for Version 5010 of HIPPA transaction and code set standards was scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2012. It has been pushed out to March 31, according to the agency's Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS)..."
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- Mobile case management system equivalent to an extra 13 staff per day
- Posted by John Lamb. Public Technology, 19 October 2011. "Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) has equipped community health staff with notebooks that allow them to save time by accessing and updating patient information wherever they are. Some 370 district nurses and health visitors have been kitted out with machines running supplier Civica's Paris case management software, saving 8,300 hours over the past year. The time saved is equivalent to having an extra 13 workers available each day, says UHB..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- The Philippines to implement nationwide TeleHealth initiative
- By Adrienne Valdez. FutureGov, 18 October 2011. "The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) have released 100 units of telehealth equipment to different areas of the country to test the efficiency of the National TeleHealth Service Programme before its complete roll out on 2012..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- How do they do IT? eHealth's bleeding edge part 1
- The NBN has being touted as a cure-all for eHealth across the nation but hospitals, medical schools and medical professionals show eHealth is fighting fit, by Chloe Herrick and Lisa Banks. Computerworld, 17 October, 2011. "Ever since the Federal Government announced its plan to construct a National Broadband Network (NBN) much time and talk has been dedicated to the endless possibilities of the fibre network. In few sectors has this been more the case than healthcare. Indeed, the potential for ultra-fast broadband to transform the health sector and make the electronic health, or e-health, a reality has often been touted as the raison d'être for the network..."
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- Scotland's NHS 24 launches digital TV channel
- New TV channel will pilot GP bookings and repeat prescriptions, as well as providing patients in Scotland with health advice, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, 30 September 2011. "NHS 24 has launched a new health information channel on three digital television systems, in a bid to improve access to advice for those without internet connections..."
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- Case Study: Mayo Clinic Supports Patients Via Social Media
- Posted By: Stephanie Reese. eMarketer, Posted: September 27, 2011. "To enhance its growing social media presence, nonprofit medical practice and research group Mayo Clinic established a Center for Social Media in July 2010. Since launching the division, Mayo Clinic has bolstered its activity on social networks and blogs. With carefully crafted social media guidelines and an expanded team, the organization has both empowered employees to get involved in the social space and provided patients and healthcare researchers with a robust destination for information and support..."
Added: 30 September 2011;
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- AUS university opens telehealth simulation lab
- By Adrienne Valdez. FutureGov, 29 September 2011. "The University of Western Australia (UWS) recently opened its Telehealth Research and Innovation Lab (THRIL), to simulate telehealth services for remote and stay-at-home patients..."
Added: 29 September 2011;
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- Evaluation of eHealth pilot projects can start
- ePractice.eu, 21 September 2011. Country Switzerland; Domain eHealth; Topic Policy; Other. "The managers of the eHealth pilot schemes carried out in Switzerland can submit their pilots to the eHealth Suisse Secretariat in view of the assessment of their compliance with the recommendations for the implementation of pilot schemes in line with the Swiss eHealth strategy..."
Added: 29 September 2011;
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- eHealth Strategy 2011 - 2017
- National Health service - Scotland - The Scottish Government, Edinburgh 2011. "... Our vision for 2017, and this second eHealth Strategy for NHSScotland, is ambitious; it has the citizen at the centre and seeks to build on the significant progress we have made over the course of the last three years. Rather than focusing on products and technology, we will instead look to the benefits and outcomes experienced by the people of Scotland flowing from eHealth enabled service re-design and quality improvements. Five new strategic eHealth aims have been developed and these will be the focus of our activity over the next six years. They are: supporting people to communicate with NHSS; contributing to care integration; improving medicines safety; enhancing the availability of information for staff; and maximising efficient working practices..."
Added: 15 September 2011;
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- Scotland publishes new eHealth strategy
- Scottish government outlines plans to get patients more directly involved in their own healthcare by focusing on outcomes from eHealth technology, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, Monday 12 September 2011. "Scotland's NHS will switch its focus from new technology projects, to the benefits and outcomes they deliver to healthcare professionals in helping them redesign and improve services, the Scottish government has said. The government's new eHealth strategy for 2011-2017 outlines a number of key priorities to help patients get more engaged with the health service. These include..."
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