Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.
General Comment
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A fair bit going on with an emphasis on security breaches and vulnerabilities. Also a good number of commercial announcements.
Browse on!
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http://www.healthintersections.com.au/?p=3068
Security Vulnerabilities in FHIR implementations
Posted on October 13, 2021 by Grahame Grieve
There’s a new report out that finds lots of security vulnerabilities in FHIR implementations, both client and server. This is useful work from Alissa Knight – thanks.
Unforunately, the media write up isn’t entirely accurate:
In fact, every tested FHIR app enabled API access to patient health data belonging to other individuals. And over 60% of the tested apps and APIs had flaws that enabled unauthorized access to data outside of the authorized users’ scope.
In fact, the report explicitly notes that no vulnerabilities were found or are documented in the EHR FHIR implementations themselves. That’s reassuring, and a little more note should be taken about that.
Nevertheless, lots of vulnerabilities were found. All of them are very basic house-keeping stuff well covered in the OWASP top ten risks. All of them are things we’ve talked about in the FHIR project, and agreed that OWASP handles them well, so we don’t need to say anything about them. And indeed, if you’re handling patient data, you need to do this stuff, and get it right.
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Tech giants expand Australian misinformation measures week after government criticism
A new portal will be created for accepting complaints from the Australian public where they believe a signatory's efforts to address misinformation are not up to scratch.
By Campbell Kwan | October 11, 2021 | Topic: Security
The Australian industry group advocating for tech giants, including Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter, has expanded its voluntary code for addressing misinformation online after the Australian and US government made fresh calls last week for tougher social media regulation.
The group, Digital Industry Group Inc (DiGi), said the expansion entails creating a new independent committee to police the voluntary code for misinformation and disinformation.
These independent members will work with signatories, through an administration sub-committee, to oversee the various actions taken by signatories to meet their obligations under the code, DiGi said.
The updated voluntary code will also see DiGi create a new complaints portal. The new portal will accept complaints from the Australian public where they believe a signatory has breached the code's commitments.
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https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/gp-telehealth-tied-patient-registration-hunts-reform-plan
GP telehealth tied to patient registration: Hunt's reform plan
Only patients who register with a GP practice will be able to access telehealth MBS rebates
14th October 2021
Medicare rebates for telehealth will only be available to patients who register with a GP practice under dramatic reforms drawn up by the Federal Government.
This week, Greg Hunt opened consultation on his 10-year plan for primary care, pledging to “harness the unprecedented momentum” created by the pandemic to deliver a wide-ranging shake-up of the health system.
Running to 59 pages, it spells out details of a radically expanded voluntary patient registration scheme from the one that was delayed last year, a casualty of COVID-19.
Originally for patients aged 70 and older, voluntary registration will be made universal, meaning any patient with a Medicare card will be eligible to sign up for their GP practice which will receive payments for flexible care.
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https://medicalrepublic.com.au/no-telehealth-without-patient-enrolment/55548
13 October 2021
No telehealth without patient enrolment
From 2023 GPs may only be able to offer MBS-subsidised telehealth consults to patients who nominate them as their usual practitioner under the government’s voluntary patient registration scheme.
Today, Minister for Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt, invited the public to submit feedback on this proposal, as well as a number of other recommendations which feature in the draft Primary Health Care 10 Year Plan.
The public will have until 29 November to provide written feedback on the draft plan.
The long awaited plan for the next decade of primary care acknowledges that telehealth, voluntary patient registration and new funding models would be key to future success.
Mr Hunt said the plan drew on two years of consultations with individuals and peak medical organisations.
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Roundup: My Covid Record portal launched, new grant for health data research projects in Australia and more briefs
Also, Queensland's largest private radiology provider now connects to My Health Record.
By Adam Ang
October 15, 2021 12:20 AM
New Zealand's My Covid Record portal launched
A website that enables New Zealand citizens to view their COVID-19 vaccination status, as well as test results and vaccination certificates in the near future, has been launched by the government.
The My Covid Record portal currently provides access to users' COVID-19 vaccination records.
This is one of the many tools that New Zealand has developed to enable economic reopening, said Michael Dreyer, group manager for National Digital Services at the Ministry of Health.
Dreyer said later this month, COVID-19 test results will be available on the platform while vaccination certificates, which can be used for local and international travel, will be provided from late November.
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https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/gp-says-teleexam-first-general-practice
GP says tele-exam a 'first' in general practice
Canberra GP Dr Paresh Dawda is using a device to examine aged care residents remotely
11th October 2021
A handheld device under trial in Canberra will enable GPs to physically examine patients remotely, including ear, throat and lung checks.
ACT GP Dr Paresh Dawda has been using the technology on residents at Goodwin Aged Care Services in a pilot, and says it takes telehealth to the ‘tele-examination’ level.
He says he believes the pilot is a first in general practice, although tele-examination has been used in hospitals and rural settings.
The device includes an otoscope, stethoscope, basal thermometer, and digital camera which are used on the patient with data sent to the GP’s laptop, smartphone or tablet in real-time.
Dr Dawda, of Next Practice Deakin, says the consultations are clinically sound and as effective as face-to-face but without having to be in the same location.
“GP home visits or visits to residential care facilities are sometimes limited, partly due to the travel time, so providing care for those who most need GP consultations is a real challenge for the industry,” Dr Dawda said in a statement.
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https://www.itwire.com/security/oaic-finds-against-7-eleven-over-facial-recognition-usage.html
Thursday, 14 October 2021 19:15
OAIC finds against 7-Eleven over facial recognition usage
OAIC: The convenience store group interfered with customers' privacy by collecting sensitive biometric information that was without necessity or reasonable consent.
Between June 2020 and August 2021, 7-Eleven had in-store tablets collecting survey information related to the in-store experience at all 700 stores around Australia.
During the collection of survey data, the tablets would collect a facial image ostensibly to confirm the validity of responses and to reject duplicates. The intention was also to gain a broad understanding of the demographic profile of those who completed the survey.
According to the news release, Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk said, "found the facial images and faceprints were sensitive information covered by additional protections under the Privacy Act 1988 because they were 'biometric information that was used for the purpose of automated biometric identification', and the faceprints were also 'biometric templates'.
"Biometric information is unique to an individual and cannot normally be changed," Commissioner Falk said.
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Virtual care — beyond the pandemic
By Bronwyn Le Grice, CEO and Founder of ANDHealth
Monday, 11 October, 2021
Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we maintain the momentum in virtual care that is transforming our health system?
After years of ongoing debate on the validity of telehealth and connected health care, Australia has made decades’ worth of progress and investment in platforms to deliver virtual care as a means to protect from infection during COVID-19.
Between March 2020 and April 2021, more than 56 million telehealth services were delivered to 13.6 million patients, equating to almost $2.9 billion in Medicare benefits paid. The recent federal Budget continued the investment into telehealth by a further $204.6 million, bringing the total to date to $3.6 billion. However, the reimbursement piece is still, at this stage, temporary.
The tip of the iceberg
In a truly modern healthcare system, platforms and infrastructure for connectivity, such as telehealth, are only the tip of the iceberg. Core infrastructure such as telehealth and electronic health records are critical platforms for enabling more sophisticated remote patient management technologies, which support the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of health conditions.
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https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/583295/My-Covid-Record-goes-live.htm
My Covid Record goes live
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth
The My Covid Record website has gone live to the public, letting people view their
Covid-19 vaccination records.
Later this month, Covid-19 test results will be available on My Covid Record
and from late November, vaccination certificates will be available for use
within New Zealand and abroad.
Michael Dreyer, Ministry of Health group manager, national digital services
says My Covid Record is one of the tools the government is putting in place to
help open up the country and return to normal life.
“Being fully vaccinated will help us have a classic Kiwi summer. To make that
happen, we’re making it as easy as possible for people to prove they’ve been
vaccinated,” he says.
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Addressing the evolving cyber threat environment
By David Stevens, Assistant Commissioner, Dispute
Resolution, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
If there’s one key message from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) latest notifiable data breaches report it’s this: the cyber threat environment is evolving and organisations need to continually update processes and protections to address this.
Around 60% of data breaches notified to the OAIC since the start of the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme have been caused by malicious or criminal attacks, and the majority of these have involved cybersecurity incidents. In fact, 43% of all breaches notified to the OAIC in the first half of the year were the result of a cybersecurity incident.
Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) data shows cybersecurity threats are increasing. The ACSC received over 67,500 cybercrime reports during the 2020–21 financial year. This equates to one report around every 8 minutes, compared to one around every 10 minutes the previous financial year.
The ACSC also noted in its Annual Cyber Threat Report that the complexity and sophistication of cyber threats continued to rise during the 2020–21 financial year, and cybercriminals pivoted to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic environment.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nsw-health-rethinks-systems-approach-with-vaccine-platform-571155
NSW Health rethinks systems approach with vaccine platform
By Justin Hendry on Oct 13, 2021 6:47AM
'Big CX learning' for agency focused on internal systems.
NSW Health had to rethink its approach towards developing and deploying systems when rolling out the ServiceNow-based vaccination management platform that has now been used to manage the administration of more than 1.7 million vaccine doses.
CIO Zoran Bolevich told ServiceNow’s Now@Work event that the relatively new platform had highlighted the significance of “CX, usability and agility” for an agency not accustomed to consumer-facing systems.
NSW Health has been rolling out the system since June 2020 to replace CoVax, an in-house solution that was developed over 21 business days in early 2021 with help from Microsoft, DGL and Whispir.
CoVax, which went live in February at South Western Sydney Local Health District, was intended to support the vaccination of around 150,000 frontline health workers, as well as chronically ill people.
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HealthEngine surges in September quarter, cornerstones booked
Anthony Macdonald, Yolanda Redrup and Kanika Sood
Oct 14, 2021 – 9.31pm
Toot toot! The Telstra Ventures and Seven West Media-backed online healthcare booking service HealthEngine is ready to leave the station.
Following a non-deal roadshow in July, HealthEngine was busy booking cornerstone meetings on Thursday with prospective investors for its upcoming float.
The conversations will no head towards some positive first quarter trading data, with numbers from July and August pointing to revenue of $5.1 million for the first three months of the 2022 financial year, up 42 per cent on the previous corresponding period.
Founded by former GP Marcus Tan and Adam Yap in 2009, HealthEngine has appointed RBC Capital Markets and Bell Potter as joint lead managers. It is also being advised by Adastra Corporate Advisory.
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https://medicalrepublic.com.au/vaccine-proof-is-on-the-way-but-dont-call-it-a-passport/55452
12 October 2021
Vaccine proof is on the way (but don’t call it a passport)
By Fran Molloy
Australia is now at the rollout stage for one of the biggest digital challenges in the pandemic: providing proof of vaccination for some 20 million residents.
And despite a level of scepticism, we’re actually nailing it, according to Medical Software Industry Association CEO Emma Hossack.
“There has been unprecedented co-operation between various government authorities and the software industry throughout the pandemic,” she said.
The Australian Immunisation Register Amendment (Reporting) Act 2021, which came into force in March, means that, by law, a record of every covid vaccination must be uploaded to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
“This makes the AIR a source of truth for every Australian,”
said Ms Hossack.
Behind the scenes, medical software providers ranging from GP practice software
to state-wide health systems and community pharmacy programs, have all linked
new covid data collection capabilities to the AIR, with a free app from the
Australian Digital Health Agency handling data from vaccination providers
without existing clinical software.
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Goodwin pilots Tyto Care's tele-examination service for Australian seniors
The three-month trial will be extended to a hundred Goodwin residents and clients.
By Adam Ang
October 13, 2021 05:42 AM
ACT-based Goodwin Aged Care Services and medical clinic Next Practice Deakin have partnered to jointly try out a technology allowing general practitioners to conduct physical examinations on Australian seniors virtually.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Their three-month pilot programme will use a tele-examination solution by New York-based Tyto Care, provider of home examination and diagnosis solutions. The smartphone or tablet-based system features a suite of tools for aged care staff to use for the examination of ears, nose, lungs, heart, throat, skin, abdomen and temperature. Physical examinations are controlled and reviewed remotely by a physician in real-time.
The programme will engage around a hundred residents of Goodwin and other clients across the ACT. One device will be operated on-site in the David Harper House residential care facility by Goodwin and another device will be used by a home care team.
WHY IT MATTERS
The partners aim to make medical and GP examinations "more accessible" for senior citizens who have difficulty going out of their homes, especially during lockdowns. According to Dr Paresh Dawda of Next Practice Deakin, doctor visits to homes or residential care facilities are "sometimes limited, partly due to travel time".
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Half of Australians comfortable receiving medical services remotely
Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
Around 48% of Australian patients would choose to rely solely on face-to-face appointments once the country is out of the COVID-19 tunnel and half of respondents (49%) said they are now comfortable with receiving medical services remotely, with almost one in five (18%) feeling “very comfortable”. This is according to latest research by Nuance Communications.
The global study — which polled 10,000 adults across the US, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Spain and Mexico — conducted by OnePoll found that before the COVID-19 pandemic, 77% of Australian patients preferred to receive their medical advice in-person. Very few would have selected phone (9%) and video (3%) consultations as an alternative.
The pandemic forced healthcare organisations to transform the way they delivered patient services, and Australians were quick to adopt these new ways. While Australia was relatively COVID-free for a number of months during the past year, digital appointments have still become more common, and there has been a shift in both patients’ behaviour and mindset regarding delivery of care.
More than one in four (27%) adult Australian patients have turned away from face-to-face appointments as their preferred method for accessing medical advice and treatment, as trust in modern technologies grows.
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Thursday, 14 October 2021 10:48
Direct Health Solutions and Roche Diagnostics Australia ramp COVID testing with digital-first solution
By Direct Health Solutions
COMPANY NEWS: Employee well-being services and platform provider Direct Health Solutions collaborates with healthcare company Roche Diagnostics Australia to scale rapid antigen testing via digital-first testing solution.
Up until now, COVID-19 testing has involved taking a nasal-pharyngeal sample from a person and sending it to a laboratory to be analysed using PCR technology. Direct Health Solutions says businesses are now turning to rapid antigen testing as a primary COVID-19 surveillance tool and as a key safety approach to encourage employees to return to the workplace.
“In the past three weeks alone, we have deployed a team of 200 nurses and onsite testers across NSW, Victoria, and Queensland, and administered over 80,000 tests on client sites,” Direct Health Solutions (DHS) CEO and founder Paul Dundon says.
The DHS team provides the Sars-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Nasal test, supplied by Roche Diagnostics, and to ramp up testing, they administer an onsite testing using an app, Navify Pass, to track results and administer results.
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Goulburn Valley Health partners My Emergency Doctor for after-hours telemedicine services
My Emergency Doctor is providing virtual specialist support.
By Adam Ang
October 12, 2021 12:56 AM
Goulburn Valley Health, a regional healthcare provider in the state of Victoria, has tapped telemedicine service My Emergency Doctor for additional virtual emergency doctor support.
Under this arrangement, senior specialist physicians from My Emergency Doctor will conduct board rounds during the overnight period, maintaining "efficient" patient management.
Established in 2016, My Emergency Doctor has been providing acute care after hours via video and phone across regional Australia. It has established partnerships with over 40 healthcare services, including ambulances, primary health networks, residential aged care facilities, hospitals, urgent care centres and multi-purpose centres.
Emergency doctors from the company are fellows of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
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Queensland’s largest private radiology provider uploads reports to My Health Record
13 Oct 2021 6:06 am AEST
Australian Digital Health Agency
Queensland X-Ray, part of Sonic Healthcare, is now sending diagnostic imaging reports to My Health Record from their network of more than 50 practices, servicing communities around Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Toowoomba, the Gold Coast, Ipswich and Brisbane.
Many of their patients have been asking about My Health Record and Queensland X-Ray, the state’s largest private radiology provider, is pleased to now be uploading reports.
This means that patients, GPs and specialists using Queensland X-Ray can view diagnostic imaging reports quickly and easily online, along with emergency department staff if a patient has to go to hospital. It avoids unnecessary repeat images when the latest report is not easily accessible, and the days of faxing results are over. This digital solution can help fast-track care and save lives in an emergency.
Amanda Cattermole, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, congratulated Queensland X-Ray.
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https://www.itwire.com/security/macquarie-health-corporation-hit-by-windows-hive-ransomware.html
Saturday, 09 October 2021 06:38
Macquarie Health Corporation hit by Windows Hive ransomware
By Sam Varghese
Macquarie Health Corporation has announced that it has suffered what it describes as a "cyber incident", that has led to it taking its IT systems offline "as a precaution".
iTWire understands the "cyber incident" is a ransomware attack, in this case by a group known as Hive or HiveLeaks that attacks systems running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Researchers from infosec firm SentinelLabs describe Hive as a double-extortion ransomware group — "making their money off of a two-pronged attack: exfiltrating sensitive data before locking up the victims’ systems" — that first made its presence known in June this year.
Jim Walter and Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade said in a blog post about Hive in August: "The group is notable in its undiscerning choice of targets, having no limits when it comes to healthcare providers and hospitals, as evidenced in a recent attack on Memorial Health System hospitals in Ohio.
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Friday, 15 October 2021 07:44
Macquarie Health making 'good progress' in recovery from Windows ransomware attack
By Sam Varghese
Macquarie Health Corporation, which reported on 7 October that it had been affected by a "cyber incident" — a Windows ransomware attack — says it is making good progress in the recovery and restoration of its IT systems.
In response to a query from iTWire, a spokesman said patient services had been able to continue without interruption.
The ransomware responsible for the attack is known as Hive or Hiveleaks and has been described as a a double-extortion ransomware group — "making their money off of a two-pronged attack: exfiltrating sensitive data before locking up the victims’ systems" — that first made its presence known in June this year.
The MHC spokesman added: "...we sincerely thank all our patients and clinicians for their support. Most importantly, we thank our staff who have been amazing during this extremely difficult period." On Tuesday, MHC had been a lot less positive about progress in cleaning up after the incident.
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Private hospital group Macquarie Health takes system offline following cyber incident
Local news says sensitive data from over 6,700 people were leaked onto the dark web.
By Adam Ang
October 12, 2021 02:51 AM
New South Wales-based private healthcare service Macquarie Health Corporation is still reeling from a "cyber incident" it experienced last week.
On 7 October, the group, which runs 12 hospitals across the Eastern seaboard of Australia, took its IT systems offline as a precaution against a reported cyberattack.
Macquarie Health has apologised for the disruption which it said "has not impacted our ability to deliver patient care".
In an update on Monday, the company said it is still experiencing "significant impacts" from the attack.
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Facial recognition for home quarantine a ‘recipe for disaster’
11:00PM October 10, 2021
State governments trialling home quarantine need to take active steps to ensure they are not crossing a new frontier in the surveillance of citizens by using facial recognition technology, privacy experts have warned.
With South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria conducting trials of home quarantine apps using facial recognition, and Western Australia already doing it, new research by the Centre for Responsible Technology shows strict limits and controls are needed to protect the public.
It follows reports that in several states police have accessed Covid check-in data to undertake routine law enforcement activities. The privacy breaches from check-in apps already show that state governments must regain the public’s trust before trialling even more complex surveillance technologies, like facial recognition.
Director of the Centre for Responsible Technology Peter Lewis said the report highlighted several issues with using facial recognition technology, including systemic biases against women and minorities; a lack of transparency; and making surveillance an acceptable activity.
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Changes to the National
Authentication Service for Health (NASH) PKI certificates
Dear
Valued Industry Partner,
The Australian Digital Health Agency has been working closely with Services
Australia to integrate the chain of trust (COT) files with NASH organisation
certificates in Health Professional Online Services (HPOS).
>From the 5th October 2021, any new NASH organisation certificate download
will be a single P12 file that contains the organisation certificate and the
associated COT. Healthcare provider organisations requesting a NASH
organisation certificate from this date will seamlessly download the
certificate and all applicable COT files simultaneously. This change applies to
both SHA-1 and SHA-2 certificates and aligns with the test certificates that
you been testing with.
Your customers’ experience in HPOS has not changed. The related steps in the
process from a user perspective remains unaffected, but the applicable files
have been included in a single P12 file.
We encourage you to review your guides and materials and determine if this
change will allow you to simplify instructions for your users.
Support:
For more
information, please contact us at help@digitalhealth.gov.au or visit the
Developer Centre (https://developer.digitalhealth.gov.au/transition-nash-sha-2-certificates).
For connections issues, please
contact HI.OTS.HELPDESK.
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Australian Digital Health Agency
Software Developer Community Announcement
HIPS Provider Application (HPA) v1.0
The Australian Digital Health Agency has released the HIPS Provider
Application (HPA) v1.0.
HPA allows clinicians in public and private hospitals access to My Health Record patient data on mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.
HPA is a mobile web application that may be added to an existing HIPS v7.1 or higher instance operated by a HIPS site.
HPA enables clinicians to list, download and display CDA™ documents while engaging with patients in ward and bed-side settings.
The key features of the application are:
Secure Active Directory login and PIN lock/unlock
- Users can log in securely using their credentials in the site’s Active Directory, and secure the login with a local device PIN, enabling the user to quickly return to the application, enter their PIN and continue reviewing their patients’ My Health Record information.
Facility selection and favourites
- Users can view patients from different healthcare facilities within the HIPS instance, where the user is in an Active Directory security group which is authorised to access the My Health Record on behalf of the facility. Users can mark their frequently accessed facilities as favourites for quick access.
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Monday, 11 October 2021 13:37
Healthcare organisations deploy Qlik to improve hospital operations
By Qlik
COMPANY NEWS: Healthcare providers are scaling Qlik to maximise the value of real-time data for decision-making during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Healthcare institutions and government departments were suddenly dealing with unprecedented amounts of data sets to manage. These organisations have been forced to bolster their data analytics and data integration capabilities. Even healthcare institutions with robust analytics programs needed to further break down internal data silos, and bring more real-time, context-aware data to their decision-making,” observes Qlik country manager ANZ Paul Leahy.
Qlik says its data analytics platform has been vital for healthcare organisations that manage changing data analytics. The organisations have embraced Active Intelligence, the ability to leverage real-time data to inform decision-making in rapidly changing market conditions.
Qlik is enabling a significant number of healthcare organisations to make better sense of their data and put it to work, generating critical insights. They count New Zealand Ministry of Health, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network, South Australia Health, Tasmanian Health Service, and Waikato District Health Board as clients.
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InterSystems Shares Vision for “Innovations in Data” at Virtual Summit 2021
Global Online Event Provides Free Education on Leveraging Healthcare Data
SYDNEY, Australia & SINGAPORE, October 13, 2021 – InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability and speed challenges, today announced that it will share its vision for “Innovations in Data” with the healthcare industry at the InterSystems Virtual Summit 2021.
Every year, the InterSystems Summit event provides technology information and peer interaction. This year it takes the form of a virtual event for the second time, with sessions running from 26 October to 29 October. Sessions can be viewed live or on demand so organisations around the world can easily attend, and participation is free.
InterSystems thought leaders will present on new developments in healthcare analytics, interoperability and FHIR®, cloud computing, and patient engagement & virtual care. Healthcare providers, and healthtech and medtech suppliers, can also hear from other organisations about turning data into actionable knowledge, insights and value.
“The digital transformation of healthcare has left us awash in data – but how can we turn this massive amount of data into actionable knowledge, insight and value?” said Luciano Brustia, Regional Managing Director, Asia Pacific at InterSystems. “Following the success of last year’s successful online event InterSystems is again delighted to host a free Virtual Summit addressing this important question.”
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11 Oct 2021 8:00 AM AEST
Detecting retinal diseases with advanced AI technology
An international group of researchers has successfully applied AI technology to real-world retinal imagery to detect possible diseases more accurately and on a larger scale.
Retinal examinations can detect a number of diseases that affect the eye. Fundus photography is a process of taking photographs of the interior of the eye through the pupil and is a way to screen and monitor such retinal diseases.
The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to fundus photography has improved the platform and enabled it to detect and monitor retinal diseases on a large scale.
The Comprehensive AI Retinal Expert (CARE) system was developed by an international group of researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, Beijing Eaglevision Technology (Airdoc), Monash University, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Beijing Tongren Eye Centre and Capital Medical University.
Associate Professor Zongyuan Ge from the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University and the Monash Data Futures Institute, said the researchers trained a clinically applicable deep-learning system for fundus diseases using data derived from real world case studies, and then externally tested the model using fundus photographs collected from clinical settings in China.
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https://www.itwire.com/health/researchers-apply-ai-technology-to-detect-retinal-disease.html
Monday, 11 October 2021 17:19
Researchers apply AI technology to detect retinal disease
By Staff Writer
An international group of researchers including researchers from Monash University has successfully applied AI technology to real-world retinal imagery to detect possible diseases more accurately and on a larger scale.
The Comprehensive AI Retinal Expert (CARE) system was developed by the international researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, Beijing Eaglevision Technology (Airdoc), Monash University, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Beijing Tongren Eye Centre and Capital Medical University.
In an announcement released on Monday by Monash Umiversity, it says that the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to fundus photography has improved the platform and enabled it to detect and monitor retinal diseases on a large scale.
Retinal examinations can detect a number of diseases that affect the eye and Fundus photography is a process of taking photographs of the interior of the eye through the pupil and is a way to screen and monitor such retinal diseases.
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https://www.itwire.com/telecoms-and-nbn/state-of-play-rsps-vs-nbn-co.html
Monday, 11 October 2021 14:33
State of play RSPs vs NBN Co
In the last couple of weeks we have witnessed assertive correspondence between the industry and NBN Co. Here is a summary what has taken place and what it means.
The triad kicked off with the CEOs of the largest five RSPs, Telstra, TGP Telecom, Optus, Vocus and Aussie Broadband jointly writing a letter, with the subject "NBN meeting its social responsibility to Australians during COVID", addressed to NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue.
The RSPs were happy with the COVID relief that NBN Co provided when the lockdowns occurred in early 2020, i.e., providing a 40% uplift in capacity at no extra cost. When the country went into the second delta wave, NBN Co did not reinstate the 40% capacity uplift instead it implemented a different relief package where the CEOs say they are paying substantially more in CVC overage charges than they could have anticipated.
They asked for the baseline month for comparing usage to be May 2021, specifically May 1 to May 26. They then asked for the calculation to use the individual usage for each RSP, so that the RSPs can calculate the credit amount they'd receive. NBN was using total industry overage for its calculation so the industry was left uncertain of the financial implications until NBN provided this after a given calculation period.
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