Updates from across the digital health ecosystem
We are happy to share that WellSouth Primary Health Network has received the COVID-19 Response Recognition Award. This award recognises service in support of the national COVID-19 response. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the WellSouth team worked tirelessly to lead Southern in a dedicated COVID-19 response. Setting up testing and vaccination sites in a short timeframe to serve the Southern population. … Read More
Electronically referring patients to public outpatient services is about to get a whole lot easier in New South Wales with the expansion of its Engage Outpatients digital referral management solution to Local Health Districts (LHDs). NSW Health’s Engage Outpatients Electronic Referral Management System (eRMS) and HealthLink’s SmartForm and Secure Messaging Technology will be rolling out to lead sites at LHDs. … Read More
SYDNEY, Australia & AUCKLAND New Zealand – InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability and speed problems, today announced that HealthShare® Health Connect Cloud™, a high-performance healthcare integration engine, is available in AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make … Read More
Workwise and Work Counts chief executive, Warren Elwin, has been recognised for his outstanding leadership in IPS employment support, as the recipient of the prestigious International IPS Learning Community’s 2023 Rick Martinez Leadership Award. Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a proven method of employment support that combines employment assistance with mental health treatment and support. Each year at the … Read More
Cemplicity can formally announce the extension of work across NHS Sussex Community Musculoskeletal (MSK) services. The initial 12–month pilot with NHS Sussex has successfully gathered a consistent and valued dataset for multiple community providers across Sussex, providing an objective measure for the quality and impact of MSK services on patient outcomes across the System. A pivotal development of the pilot … Read More
Some positives in Budget 2023 The Digital Health Association is welcoming Budget 2023’s investment in the wider digital space. “It’s good to see investment in the digital skills and talent pipeline through further funding of the Industry Transformation Plans, and it’s great to see specific investment earmarked for the development of innovation centres, including one for health and wellbeing,” says … Read More
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States, serving more than nine million veterans across roughly 1,300 facilities. The VA’s Office of Connected Care (OCC) uses Pexip as the video engine powering VA Video Connect (VVC), a custom telehealth solution built to streamline and simplify healthcare services for veterans nationwide. With VVC, … Read More
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Novari Health and BPAC Clinical Solutions are proud to announce the successful integration of Novari’s referral management software with BPAC’s secure electronic referral system. This integration will provide an enhanced, streamlined, and more efficient way for healthcare professionals to electronically refer patients and manage referral workflows. This bi-directional integration enables clinicians using the BPAC eReferral system to … Read More
The partnership will focus on the Vensa.com Platform integration with Healthpoint’s HL7® FHIR® standard API to enable patient’s choice of pharmacy selection. AUCKLAND, NZ, 28 April, 2023 – Vensa Health (www.vensa.com), a leading New Zealand digital health company, has partnered with online directory service Healthpoint (www.healthpoint.co.nz). Healthpoint has enabled access to the online directory using a FHIR®-compatible application programming interface gateway. Vensa is … Read More
Medicly, a secure data exchange that automates the technology workflow required to access primary care data securely, has partnered with Medtech Global to roll out their solution to healthcare providers across Aotearoa. This partnership will enhance the security of primary healthcare records and information by providing an audit of all data access. Medtech owns and manages over 85% of the … Read More
Medical professionals and training organisations have a new tool to easily manage their professional development events with the launch of the SimpleCPD app. SimpleCPD, which launched this month, provides an end-to-end digital workflow for both training providers and attendees to accurately and efficiently capture their continuing professional development (CPD) activities. The concept for SimpleCPD came from Ōtautahi Christchurch Anaesthetist, Dr … Read More
Healthcare challenges require muscular, IT-led change Don Woodlock, Vice President, Healthcare, InterSystems Is muscle memory a good thing? Or a bad thing? And how does it hinder digital transformation, particularly in the healthcare industry? Most of us have heard of muscle memory – it’s the embedded learning that comes from repeated practice or exposure to a situation. It’s what allows … Read More