Updates from across the digital health ecosystem
DeliverHealth expands its partnership with iMedX, Australia’s largest transcription solution provider, to transform the way ANZ providers manage clinical documentation. By DeliverHealth | December 12, 2023 | Clinical Documentation, Press Releases It’s no secret that documenting healthcare service outcomes and the creation of timely, accurate clinical documentation are putting increased pressure on clinicians. As an outcome of these pressures, increasingly healthcare providers are looking for ways … Read More
Spark Foundation reaffirms support for Māori in DigiTech committing $1 million to Te Ao Matihiko 07 December 2023 Source: Brooke Hurndell https://www.sparknz.co.nz/ Spark Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Spark, today announced a $1 million investment over the next three years in Te Ao Matihiko, the newly formed national organisation for Māori in technology, which launched in October. It’s the largest investment Spark … Read More
FHIR and the Hira programme FHIR is a health interoperability standard for digital interfaces that supports easy and meaningful exchange of health data. Hira is a Programme to enable greater access to health information. Healthcare providers will have a more access to a person’s health information. Consumers will have better access to their own health information and more control over … Read More
Medtech is ensuring the responsible and reliable transfer of primary care data and improving the performance of its practice management system (PMS) by working only with Certified Partners from 2024. Medtech distributes and supports more than 80 percent of the practice management systems across New Zealand. Historically, a number of third-party applications have connected into the Medtech PMS to provide … Read More
A new secure website that gives people access to their immunisation records and their COVID-19 test results was launched on the December 5, 2023. My Health Record is an important step to help support New Zealanders to access their health information online. It also provides parents with tamariki under 12 years of age the option to link to their children’s … Read More
On the 4 December the AIR completed the transition to replace the use of the National Immunisation Register (NIR) and the COVID Immunisation Register (CIR). This milestone moved us to one sole register operating in New Zealand. The AIR enables vaccination providers to take a whole of whānau approach to vaccination delivery. Vaccinators will be able to view immunisation history … Read More
Northern Health Improves Patient Access to Emergency Care with Virtual Emergency Department on AWS Source AWS Case Study https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/northern-health-case-study/ Opportunity | Seeking to Deliver Better Care for Patients and Overworked Staff Every year, thousands of patients in Melbourne, Australia, receive healthcare services at Northern Health. Northern Health operates Melbourne’s busiest emergency department, treating more than 110,000 patients annually. Despite efforts to increase capacity, … Read More
Health tech innovators Webtools and health informatics company BPAC Clinical Solutions announce partnership to provide accessible and equitable healthcare solutions that empower patients, improve health outcomes, and free up valuable time for clinicians. The partnership sees the two companies combine their strengths, bringing together Webtools’ Centrik platform with BPAC’s Smart Care suite, starting with their Care Kiosk – a self-service … Read More
The ABC Pro pilot began in 2021 after a Breast Cancer Foundation report, called 'I'm still here', discovered many patients struggle to manage symptoms, reducing their quality of life and potentially their survival. The programme, run in conjunction with Waikato Hospital, is improving symptoms and quality of life in patients living with advanced breast cancer and has already helped some … Read More
New Zealand must embrace all the advantages of existing, new, and emerging digital health technologies to deliver real value to its ailing health system. That’s the view of the Digital Health Association, which wants the new Government to establish a Digital Health Agency. Releasing its briefing to incoming Ministers, the Association says an independent and standalone Digital Health Agency will … Read More
The PHN has been working on reducing the burden of reporting for Commissioned Services. Part of this project was the introduction of a consistent validated Participant Reported Experience Measure (PREM) administered by Cemplicity, who will administer, collate and report the YES PHN Survey. Commissioned services are in the process of adopting this as new process. New Horizon’s First Nation Mental … Read More
Skin conditions are known to disproportionately affect Māori and Pasifika, children under 4, and New Zealanders living in more deprived areas of Aotearoa New Zealand. The higher prevalence of skin diseases among Māori and Pasifika in Aotearoa New Zealand and other Indigenous groups around the world has been linked to many factors, including the impact of socio-economic factors, inadequate and overcrowded … Read More