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Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives related to health in the state of Victoria, Australia.
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- Department of Health - Social Media Action Plan - Part 1: Policy
- The Department of Health's Social Media policy recognises that staff and business units will increasingly be using social media to interact with each other and the Victorian community and to promote the work of the Department. This policy provides a safe framework for online participation by representatives of the Department of Health. The policy recognises that all communications by public servants must comply with the standards of conduct and behaviour set out in the Public Administration Act 2004, the Code of Conduct for Victorian public sector employees, Victorian Government policies and guidelines, and Commonwealth and state legislation.
Added: 30 August 2010
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- Better Health Channel - iPhone and iPad mobile application
- The Department of Health's Better Health Channel has launched a free iPhone and iPad app to help Victorians take control of their health and wellbeing anytime, anywhere. The mobile app builds on the quality information Victorians have come to expect from the award winning Better Health Channel, by delivering only the best health and medical advice. The app delivers comprehensive, reliable and easy to understand information – all of which has been quality assured by medical experts. The Better Health Channel app enables Victorians to search, find and browse health information as well as locate an extensive range of health services.
Added: 27 September 2011
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- Department of Health - Social Media Action Plan - Part 2: Staff Toolkit
- Best practice guidelines and templates that can be used by business units implementing social media. The Health Web Communications Unit has commissioned this checklist to step you through the process of establishing and launching your social media site.
Added: 30 August 2010
Page views: 3,398
Rating: 3
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- Department of Health - Social Media Action Plan - Part 3: Reference guide
- In this document, we present a set of profiles of key web 2.0 tools, explaining not only what they do but also how they are being used in the Health sector around the world. We introduce them and set the context for web 2.0 by providing an overview of the growth in web 2.0 tools and products over the past 10 years. In the dynamic and evolving web 2.0 environment, the examples given may quickly lose relevance. Our aim, therefore, has been to show not only the wide variety of tools and of uses, but also the potential that these tools offer. Our focus is on proven, established tools with clear application and relevance for the Department of Health.
Added: 30 August 2010
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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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- Government 2.0 Action Plan: Better Health Channel - better health and wellbeing
- A Health 2.0-enabled BHC has the potential to integrate health promotion into people's day-to-day lives as well as helping people live better with chronic illness. With the incidence of chronic disease on the rise, over the long term Health 2.0 has the potential to help people make more informed decisions about their own health. The BHC Health 2.0 platform will be user-centric and focused on individual user- created content. A number of Web 2.0 applications for BHC are proposed to support citizens to establish and maintain healthy behaviours and lifestyles.
Added: 6 October 2010
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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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- Teaching old sites new tricks: Transforming the Better Health Channel into a Web 2.0 platform
- Presentation to the Victoria Online Seminar Series, 27 April 2010. Established in 1999 and without any major redevelopment in either its IA or visual look and feel in more than a decade it would be safe to say that the Better Health Channel is the "grand old lady" of websites in the Victorian Government domain. It continues to be a Victorian Government success story – According to Hitwise stats it's the top consumer health and medical information website in Australia and most visited Victorian Government website with over 12 million annual visitors. Given this longevity and user base some would argue that any change to its winning formula might be risky... But, despite the challenges, it is about to change...radically. Gerardine O'Sullivan and David Haubenschild will show that no matter how old or established or well loved a website is, that by increasing the involvement of users through the redevelopment process at all stages, the website has begun the journey into the Web 2.0 world.
Added: 16 September 2010
Page views: 931
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- Victoria - Better Health Channel scoops double award
- The Victorian Government's Better Health Channel website has scooped two major awards at the 2008 Hitwise Online Performance Awards, announced in Sydney today.
Added: 25 March 2009
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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;
Page views: 1,310
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- Victoria dumps HealthSMART e-health project
- Written by Renai LeMay. Delimiter, Monday, May 21, 2012. "The Victorian State Government has reportedly decided to walk away from its troubled central electronic health project HealthSMART, which has reached only a limited number of its goals over the past decade since it was initiated, despite soaking up several hundred million dollars worth of government funding..."
Added: 23 May 2012;
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- Victoria kills HealthSMART IT project
- By Ry Crozier. IT News, May 18, 2012. "No more money after June 30. The Victorian Government has abandoned its statewide HealthSMART IT project, reportedly citing a cost overrun of at least $140 million. A spokeswoman for Health Minister David Davis' office told iTnews that funding for the project would conclude on June 30 this year. Four lead agencies - Eastern Health, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Austin Health and Peninsula Health - will continue using HealthSMART, after adopting the system almost a year ago..."
Added: 22 May 2012;
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- Vic scraps HealthSMART system
- By AAP, and Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, May 18, 2012. "The Victorian Government has made the decision to scrap its HealthSMART system, which was years overdue and had run hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. HealthSMART was launched in 2003 and had been designed to run as a single electronic foundation for the state's public health service. The single platform would combine a finance system, as well as patient-management and clinical-applications services. However, Health Minister David Davis today confirmed that the government had scrapped the continuation of the roll-out of HealthSMART, with the government to now work on a hospital-by-hospital basis, to set up individualised systems..."
Added: 21 May 2012;
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- Victoria pilots standing workstations
- By Liz Tay. IT News, April 26, 2012. "Sets sights on 'prolonged sitting'. The Victorian Government has kicked off a three-year, $600,000 project to trial workstations and business activities that reduce 'prolonged sitting' among office workers. Some 160 height-adjustable workstations will be deployed in up to 16 Federal Human Services call centres across the state in one of five “large-scale pilot interventions” by health promotion agency, VicHealth..."
Added: 3 May 2012;
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- HealthSMART – dumb and dumber
- by Charles Wright. eHealth Central, February 27, 2012. "While the Victorian Government seems to have adopted a sort of reverse Field of Dreams approach to the State’s trouble-plagued HealthSMART program – one might best describe it as an 'Ignore It and It Will Go Away' policy – the cost of fixing the mess so hospitals can move out of paper-based records seem to be increasing at an alarming rate..."
Added: 1 March 2012;
Page views: 127
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- AMA calls for hospital IT funding
- by Kate Hagan. The Age, February 27, 2012. "Technology is urgently needed to replace paper-based records that are compromising patient care in public hospitals, doctors say, as the state government continues to defer any decision on the future of Victoria's troubled HealthSMART program..."
Added: 1 March 2012;
Page views: 1,050
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- $15 million for smart solutions to healthcare challenges
- From the Minister for Technology. Media Release, Tuesday, 4 October 2011. "A new $15 million program to promote demand-driven innovation in Victoria's healthcare system was today announced by Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips at a BioMelbourne Network event in Melbourne. The Health Market Validation Program (Health MVP) is a competitive grants program that will leverage the power of government-as-customer to support the development of innovative health technology solutions to identified problems facing Victoria's health sector. Mr Rich-Phillips said the program aimed to support the growth of innovative small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in order to deliver economic benefits for Victoria including job creation, export and investment opportunities, and increased productivity..."
Added: 13 October 2011;
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- Health Market Validation Program - Victoria
- Department of Business and Innovation. "The Health Market Validation Program (Health MVP) is a $15 million competitive grants program that encourages innovation in healthcare. Through the program, the Victorian Government is seeking solutions to healthcare challenges in order to achieve better health outcomes, improve healthcare service delivery and deliver economic benefits for Victoria. The aim of the Health Market Validation Program The Health MVP supports the pre-commercial development of innovative healthcare-related products, processes or services by Victorian small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). It links those in the public health sector who have identified a need with innovative Victorian SMEs that can develop technology solutions..."
Added: 13 October 2011;
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- Better Health Channel - Health Information and Services App
- By Department of Health (Victoria), Released: 19 September 2011. "Health and medical information you can trust. The Better Health Channel app helps you take control of your health and wellbeing by providing you with quality assured, reliable and trusted health information and services. The app includes: - Extensive health and medical information about conditions and diseases, their symptoms, management and care. - Treatments information - from simple lifestyle adjustments to medical procedures, associated risks and potential treatment alternatives. - First aid procedures for a wide range of common injuries - from bites and burns to heat stroke and hypothermia. - Suburb and postcode discovery and detailed map directions to Victorian health service providers such as doctors, dentists, pharmacists and physiotherapists - Urgent medical help and advice contacts including Nurse On Call, Kids helpline, Poisons Information, Lifeline and more..."
Added: 22 September 2011;
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- Award winning Better Health Channel goes mobile
- From the Minister for Health. Media Release, Tuesday, 20 September 2011. "For the first time in Victoria, a free app for iPhone and iPad users will help Victorians conveniently locate local health services and learn more about medical conditions and treatments. Minister for Health David Davis today launched the Better Health Channel mobile phone app at Inner South Community Health Service in South Melbourne. "The mobile app extends the reach and access of the award-winning Better Health Channel, which is Australia's number one health and medical website featuring the most trusted, up-to-date and easy to understand health and medical information," Mr Davis said..."
Added: 22 September 2011;
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- Victorian government puts health info in an app
- By Stephen Withers. ITWire, Tuesday, 20 September 2011. "A new iOS app delivers health and medical information from the Victorian Government's Better Health Channel. The Victorian Government's Better Health Channel website has been in operation for over a decade, and in that time has won a number of awards for sites in the health and medical category. The site was given a major makeover last year, and the latest development is a free app for the iPhone and iPad..."
Added: 22 September 2011;
Page views: 299
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- New management system to enhance patient safety
- Premier of Victoria, Media Release, Tuesday 8 March 2011. "Victorian Health Services will be contributing to better outcomes for all patients with the new Victorian Health Incident Management System now fully operational... The Victorian Health Incident Management System (VHIMS) is an important tool for collating, analysing and identifying trends and is a useful and important step forward in reporting errors and sentinel events... A sentinel event is defined as a relatively infrequent, clear-cut adverse event that occurs independently of a patient's condition, commonly reflecting hospital system and process deficiencies, and resulting in unnecessary outcomes for the patient.VHIMS data will provide the capacity for lessons learned within one organisation to be shared with others. A key component of VHIMS will be the delivery of effective information sharing mechanisms so that health services can benefit from analysis of statewide data..."
Added: 10 March 2011;
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- Last rites for health IT system
- by Kate Hagan. The Age, February 21, 2011. "HEALTH Department staff fear Victoria's $360 million health technology program is being shut down after being told that no contracts will be renewed for people working on it. The news delivered to staff late last week follows an admission last month by Health Minister David Davis that he was considering abandoning the HealthSMART program, which is five years late and $35 million over budget..."
Added: 24 February 2011;
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- IHI Pre-Implementation Project: Best Practice Guide for Adopting Individual Healthcare Identifiers in Victoria - in pdf format (911kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). HealthSMART Design Authority / Victorian Government - Department of Health, 2011. "The purpose of this document is to provide a Best Practice Guide for Victorian health services in the adoption, use and management of the Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) as defined by the National HI Service, This document seeks to provide guidance in regard to: Principles, Business Requirements and Recommendations; IHI Pre-Implementation, Adoption and Change Management approaches; IHI Use Case Functions; IHI Exception management; Policies and Procedures... The scope of this document is to provide guidance in relation to implementation of the Individual HealthCare Identifier (IHI) into the health service setting, with specific focus on HealthSMART health services in Victoria... The HealthSMART initiative being undertaken by Department of Health Victoria is the program implementing Victoria's information and communication technology (ICT) strategy to modernise and replace ICT systems throughout the Victorian Public Healthcare Sector (VPHS). The HealthSMART program is responsible for managing processes to select applications, configuring these applications to reflect statewide requirements (statewide footprint) and then implementing these applications into participating agencies using the statewide footprint as a base. HealthSMART is nearing the end of its original work program. The IHI reference design will be incorporated into the HealthSMART Solution Architecture, and used as a checkpoint against current and future solutions that are incorporated into the HealthSMART solution design..."
Added: 14 February 2011;
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