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.
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A shortened week with ANZAC day looming seems o have made things very quiet indeed. Other than the usual ADHA and PHN propaganda only a few news bit!
Hopefully more fun next week!
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nt-health-signs-5m-alcidion-software-upgrade-578897
NT Health signs $5m Alcidion software upgrade
By Jeremy Nadel on Apr 19, 2022 12:05PM
Patient flow and bed management get a boost.
Northern Territory Health is embarking on an upgrade of its clinical and operational software platform Alcidion, in a deal worth $5 million over five years.
Under the program, the department will upgrade its Alcidion Miya Precision implementation to the latest version.
In a financial filing [pdf], the vendor said the contract also comes with a two-year extension option. NT Health has used the Miya platform since 2009.
The contract covers the upgraded platform’s flow, access and command modules, and will support patient flow and bed management between major hospitals and "satellites" - remote clinics - across the Northern Territory.
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NT Health extends clinical decision support contract with Alcidion
It will now upgrade to the latest Miya Precision platform.
By Adam Ang
April 19, 2022 05:08 AM
NT Health has signed a contract with listed health tech firm Alcidion to upgrade to the latest Miya Precision clinical decision support platform.
The department, which runs five public hospitals and community and remote health centres serving over 200,000 people, has been one of the early adopters of Alcidion's original Miya platform.
Its extended use contract will see the deployment of Miya Precision with core modules Miya Flow and Access and the ability to add more modules over time across its entire network.
Miya Precision is an FHIR-event-based clinical support solution that facilitates multiple clinical and operational applications. It provides clinicians with actionable insights by consolidating information from disparate systems.
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Education Training / Education Training
Pinpoint Talent Hiring for Digital Health Educator – Indigenous Affirmative Job at Canberra Full Time NEW
- Federal Government Opportunity
- All Australian state applications considered
- Long Term Contract
Pinpoint Talents’ partnering Federal Government client has an amazing 36 month contract opportunity for Indigenous Affirmative professionals looking for their next career opportunity.
Experienced Professionals with backgrounds from the below professions will be strongly suited to this opportunity;
- Education
- Health Care
- Human Resources/People & Culture
- Change Management
However anyone with an interest in this opportunity is encouraged
to apply.
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https://atsijobs.com.au/jobs/digital-health-officer/
Digital Health Officer
We are currently partnering with a Federal Government agency to recruit a Digital Health Officer for a 3 year contract. They are seeking someone from either a technical background, or someone from a HR/Liaison background with strong knowledge regarding both Indigenous culture and health initiatives!
The Role
You’ll be working within the Training, Learning and Development division and will be responsible for leading the education and change management activities for the adoption of My Health Record within the Australian Digital Health Agency.
- Lead education and change management activities for the adoption of My Health Record
- Provide regular digital health feedback and ‘train the trainer’ education, training and updates for primary healthcare sectors, Indigenous Health delivery partners
- Provide assistance and support to stakeholders to resolve technical and useability issue
- Coordinate internal resources with external providers to develop online resources
- Responsible for the implementation, testing, evaluation and on-going maintenance of allocated online resources
- Project support – Manage all stages of online resource development projects including the development of timelines, engaging relevant staff, key stakeholders and third-party providers as required
- Create, manage and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to drive the use of key digital health technologies
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https://www.reddit.com/r/HealthAnxiety/comments/th5b15/i_can_now_view_my_health_record_and_i_wish_i/
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I can now view my health record and I wish I couldn't
The fact that I can now view my health record online has made me so much more anxious. I've been looking at past blood test results, agonising over borderline results, and even spotting where results have been labelled 'abnormal' but I'd never heard anything about it until now. I've been feeling so rough for the past few months and it's been jammed down my throat that it's definitely anxiety. But it's so hard when you feel sick every day to believe that you have to just learn to deal with it, and that there isn't an underlying medical reason. And now, being able to see all my test results, my monitoring of symptoms has just sky rocketed.
The past few weeks I'd been really good with not googling symptoms or worrying that I've got a serious illness. But for some reason today I went down that health anxiety rabbit hole again and I'm back to being terrified. When this happens I tend to do a few things to frantically alleviate my worries, like book a doctors appointment and buy some vitamins that I havent had before. I guess I'm just venting because I'm angry and upset at how crippling health anxiety can be, and how much I still believe that I have severe medical problem. :(
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Webinar reminder: Uploading allergy information to My Health Record
This Webinar, which is specifically for ASCIA members, will explain the process for uploading patient allergy information to My Health Record directly from your clinical software.
Please join us as we hear from Dr William Smith (Clinical immunology/allergy specialist, South Australia) about why this is important for your patients, and Dr Kathy Rainbird (Australian Digital Health Agency) who will provide a step-through demonstration using Genie software.
Date and time: 8pm – 8:30pm AEDT (5pm – 5.30pm WST) Thursday 31 March 2022
Register here
Suitable for: Specialists using a range of conformant clinical software.
A recording of this Webinar will be made available on the National Allergy Strategy website.
Kind regards,
Dr
William Smith and Ms Karen Wong
Project Co-leads, National Allergy Strategy Australian Digital Health
Agency (My Health Record) Project
The National Allergy Strategy is a partnership between the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) and Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia (A&AA) in collaboration with other stakeholders.
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https://hnc.org.au/events/for-specialists-my-health-record-demonstration-in-genie-xhp-x4/
For Specialists – My Health Record demonstration in Genie
Clinical Information System (CIS) My Health Record Q+A sessions.
These 30-minute sessions are aimed at GPs, Specialists, Practice Managers, Practice Nurses and Aboriginal Health Workers interested in learning more about My Health Record and how to use it most effectively in routine practice.
Using a software simulation platform, the instructor will answer questions or demonstrate available features of My Health Record using the stated Clinical Information System (CIS): Best Practice
Venue: Online
Date/Time: Tue 03 May 2022, 11:00 am - 11:30 am AEST
Event Organiser: Australian Digital Health Agency
Contact: Australian Digital Health Agency
Phone: 0417 722 677
Email: Click here
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https://thephn.com.au/news/new-digital-health-grants-available
New Digital Health Grants Available
The PHN’s Digital Health Strategy aims to “deliver improved health outcomes through strong digital health foundations that lead to accessible, equitable, safe, effective and sustainable digitally-enabled models of care". The $5,000 grants are designed to supplement the provision and delivery of items such as Telehealth, website upgrades or other digital health improvements such as staff training or remote patient monitoring. They will assist with building digital health foundations and standardising digital platforms in primary healthcare services across the region.
There are a limited number of grants available and applications will close on the 20th May unless fully subscribed to earlier.
Applying for these grants is simple, visit our website for full details.
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https://www.nethealth.com/australian-study-highlights-value-of-tissue-analytics-wound-care-platform/
Australian Study Highlights Value of Tissue Analytics Wound Care Platform
Findings also confirm platform’s capabilities for wound and skin clinical trials
PITTSBURGH, PA – April 18, 2022 – Net Health, a leading provider of software and analytics for medical specialties, announced the recent publication of a study reviewing the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled mobile wound care applications developed by Net Health. The study showed that these applications provide better documentation, are easy to use, engage patients, and drive improvements in wound measurement and management.
Conducted by Australian New South Wales (NSW) Health Service, the study looked at the performance of Net Health’s Tissue Analytics’ wound imaging and analysis platform in multiple sites, including a senior care ward, colorectal ward, an outpatient dermatology clinic, and primary care physicians’ offices.
In addition to highlighting the platform’s value in clinical settings, the findings provide helpful insights for researchers looking to conduct decentralized and hybrid clinical trials involving wounds, skin lesions, and visible skin conditions in a post-pandemic world.
Statistically Significant Findings
The study was published in the International Wound Journal. The e-clinical platform was tested on 124 patients with 184 wounds compared with the standard care group, consisting of 166 patients with 243 wounds. Results showed several statistically significant outcomes related to use of the platform, including the completeness of documentation based on the number of dressing changes compared to standard care, pain, size, exudate, and odor (p < 0.001). These findings demonstrate the positive impact of the platform in terms of usability, patient adherence, and the photographic evidence of clinical endpoints.
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Electronic Prescribing Conformance Profile v2.1 Released
The Australian Digital Health Agency has released an update to the technical framework information to support the implementation of electronic prescribing. This updates the technical framework documents released on 31 October 2019.
The Australian Digital Health Agency has released an update to the technical framework information to support the implementation of electronic prescribing. This updates the technical framework documents released on 31 October 2019.
Key improvements
- This update includes changes to the Electronic Prescribing - Participating Software Conformance Profile document and is intended to support software vendors to implement electronic prescribing.
Who does this affect?
- All affected clinical systems should be updated in accordance with the revised conformance requirements.
More Information
- Download the Electronic Prescribing - Participating Software Conformance Profile v2.1 from: https://developer.digitalhealth.gov.au/specifications/ehealth-foundations/ep-3041-2020/dh-3125-2020
- For a more detailed description of the changes, please refer to the Release Note: https://developer.digitalhealth.gov.au/specifications/ehealth-foundations/ep-3041-2020/dh-3128-2020
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Software Developer Community Announcement
ADHA - HIPS v8.3 Released
The Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) has released a new minor release of its HIPS middleware product:
· HIPS v8.3
Key improvements
HIPS v8.3 is a minor release that provides the following enhancements and defects fixes:
- Significant improvements to document upload performance. This version of HIPS is capable of uploading 200,000 documents per 24 hours on the recommended high usage profile documented on the HIPS 8.3 - Server Roles, Specifications and Software Requirements page in Collaborate.
- Emergency Department views have been added to HIPS UI, providing quick access to information critical for emergency care. The Patient Summary view now includes the following information:
- Immunisations (introduced in HIPS 8.2) with option to highlight COVID-19 vaccines
- Medicines
- Discharge Summaries
- Allergies and Adverse Reactions
- Emergency Contact Details
- Support for uploading Discharge Summary, Event Summary and Specialist Letter Document sub-types with HIPS providing the latest list of available sub-types published by the Agency.
- Support for uploading multiple Discharge Summaries against a single episode.
- Further resilience to temporary infrastructure errors. When HIPS detects the Certificate Revocation List is unavailable, processing is retried. In addition, when unexpected error types are detected from My Health Record, the hips.PcehrErrorCode table can be updated to detect future occurrences of these errors and control whether HIPS retries the error.
- Management of certificates has been simplified by storing details in the HIPS database using the configuration subsystem.
- A mix of SHA-1 and SHA-2 certificates is now supported.
- New configuration settings to give control to Site admins for customising error messages produced in HIPS Core, My Health Record and HI Service tailored for their users, including optional text to contact the Site’s Help Desk.
Who will this affect?
- Public and private hospital organisations
- Diagnostic service provider organisations
- System integrators
- Software vendors
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https://wildhealth.net.au/telehealth-physical-exams-boosted-by-new-research/
21 April 2022
Telehealth physical exams boosted by new research
Clinical COVID-19 Technology Telehealth Virtual/Remote Care
By Wendy John
Physical examinations are hampered by telehealth but latest research has curated the best work-arounds to maximise diagnosis.
In this podcast we introduce Telepresence 5 – a suggested guideline for doctors to coach patients through self-examinations. We are joined by Professor Stephen W. Russell, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who explains Telepresence 5 and highlights some new home medical devices that are helping.
Professor Russell touches on current research in virtual care technology in the United States. He says that there is still a long way to go in making telehealth more effective and that it is an area that is “ripe for research”.
You can listen and subscribe to the show by searching for “Wild Health Podcast The Medical Republic” in your favourite podcast player.
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https://wildhealth.net.au/online-chat-group-teen-talk-is-kicking-goals/
21 April 2022
Online chat group Teen Talk is kicking goals!
Have you got teens in your care?
This time last year Musculoskeletal Australia started their MSK Kids program, Teen Talk. One year on, Teen Talk is connecting even more young people living with musculoskeletal or chronic pain conditions right around the country.
Open to those aged 13-20, Teen Talk now has over 30 users covering most states and territories. MSK Kid’s program coordinator, Buffy Squires, who oversees the Teen Talk platform says:
“I love seeing what the young people are talking about on Teen Talk. They are so kind and supportive of one another. It’s great to know that these kids have others who understand what they’re going through too. They share their feelings and talk about their health issues but more importantly they have fun, posting pictures of their pets or their latest artwork. It’s a really nice space”.
As you know, many teens living with a musculoskeletal condition?have?never met another teen going through the same thing.?This is particularly true of those living in remote communities or for kids living with?even?rarer?conditions?such as scleroderma or juvenile lupus. An online portal such as Teen Talk?enables these kids to “meet up” and connect with others who understand.?
Teen Talk utilises a private server through the online portal ‘Discord’. Discord is an instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities. Users communicate as part of communities called ‘servers’. The program is free to use.
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Friday, 22 April 2022 10:43
NBN be warned as T‑Mobile smokes the competition in the US
T-Mobile announced that the company welcomed its 1 millionth Home Internet customer, remarkable growth just one year after launching the service commercially. This indicates that an aggressive deployment of fixed wireless infrastructure in our Australian suburbs might be more viable.
In addition, T-Mobile says that thanks to it's unrivaled 5G network expansion, 10 million additional homes nationwide are now eligible for 5G Home Internet, bringing the total number of eligible households to more than 40 million, all covered with 5G.
“T-Mobile’s remarkable growth in broadband – a market that’s full of big behemoth corporations – just underscores how hungry customers are for a real alternative to the Carriers and the Landline ISPs,” said T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert.
“We launched into broadband last year with a radically new value prop that’s completely disrupted this category, and now, with a household footprint that’s millions larger than the nearest fixed wireless competitor. And we are just getting started. There’s more Un-carrier disruption on the way.”
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Wednesday, 20 April 2022 10:22
New Activ8me NBN Sky Muster plans offer daily data
Melbourne based RSP Activ8me has introduced new NBN satellite plans with daily rather than monthly caps. The idea is to stop customers running out of data before the end of the month.
Activ8me's NBN Sky Muster Pro plans provide up to 10GB of data a day.
This arrangement means customers "will always have more data tomorrow," the company explained, even after large downloads such as games.
Managing data use has been a pain-point for Sky Muster users, according to Activ8me, because the limited methods available to customers means they often run out of data days or even weeks before the end of the month.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-greens-pledge-free-nbn-for-low-income-households-578933
The Greens pledge free NBN for low-income households
By Staff Writers on Apr 20, 2022 6:28AM
Address broadband affordability.
The Australian Greens party has unveiled a plan to offer about 1 million low-income households free NBN internet services, paid out of taxes on “billionaires and big corporations”.
The plan, announced on Sunday, would benefit about 1.5 million healthcare card holders, according to a report by SBS, and has been costed at $800 million a year.
Party leader Adam Bandt said the proposal would benefit “carers, students, low-income families and the unemployed.”
“No one should be left offline,” he said.
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Tuesday, 19 April 2022 09:56
NBN Co proposed variation to Special Access Undertaking delayed, as predicted
As predicted the ACCC's consultation and the outcome of the NBN Co SAU variation has been dragged out until after the election.
The ACCC’s formal consultation on NBN Co’s proposed variation to its Special Access Undertaking has been delayed to provide NBN Co time to address practical issues with the release of information it claims is commercially sensitive.
The proposed variation to the undertaking follows a series of industry working group meetings run by the ACCC in the second half of 2021 that identified a range of issues with the regulation under the current undertaking, and discussed alternative proposals, the ACCC advised.
NBN Co provided the ACCC with its proposed variation to the undertaking on 29 March 2022. The proposed variation to the undertaking is a key part of the future regulation of the NBN. It sets the terms and conditions for internet providers to access the NBN until 2040, including arrangements for setting maximum prices.
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David.
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