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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We are gradually seeing more activity and the New Year starts – enjoy!
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AI breakthrough could save time and money in MRI scans
By BEN SPENCER
The Times
6:07PM January 1, 2023
An artificial intelligence breakthrough could cut the time of an MRI to as little as 15 minutes and save up to £250 ($445) per scan.
For the past 20 years, patients have had dye injected into a vein before undergoing certain types of scan to make complex anatomy stand out more clearly. But scientists have shown they can do away with the dye by using AI instead.
The researchers used 4000 heart scan images to train machines to detect problems that would not usually be seen without dye. They effectively predict what a contrast-enhanced image would look like.
Results published in the Circulation medical journal show the technology can be used to detect scarring after a heart attack and performs better at picking up problems than traditional scans.
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Northern Territory completes second stage rollout of Acacia PHR
It is also being implemented in renal services at the Top End.
By Adam Ang
January 04, 2023 09:45 PM
The Northern Territory government has completed the second stage rollout of its new patient health record system.
Following its first implementation at Katherine Hospital, the A$259 million ($182 million) Acacia system is now also in use at the 30-bed acute care Gove Hospital.
Moreover, the PHR system is being rolled out in renal services across the Top End region, which includes Darwin, Katherine, Kakadu, and Arnhem Land. It was initially deployed in four renal dialysis sites late last year and is now coming to more sites in central Australia early this year.
"Staff on site now use Acacia to capture same-day data on dialysis treatments," a media release noted.
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https://build.fhir.org/ig/AuDigitalHealth/ci-fhir-r4/Organization-tas-family-clinic.html
Australian Digital Health Agency FHIR Implementation Guide 0.0.1
Australian Digital Health Agency FHIR, published by Australian Digital Health Agency. This is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.0.1). This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/AuDigitalHealth/ci-fhir-r4/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
Example: Organization-tas-family-clinic
Formats: Narrative, XML, JSON, Turtle
Generated Narrative: Organization
Resource Organization "tas-family-clinic"
Profile: ADHA Core Organization
type: Healthcare Provider (Organization type#prov)
name: Tasmanian Family Medicine Clinic
telecom: reception@dfmc.example.com, fax: (03) 5550 5557(WORK), ph: (03) 5550 5556(WORK)
address: LPO Box 235 Strahan TAS 7468 AU
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https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/careers/it-support-analyst
IT Support Analyst
APS4
($84,807 - $89,609)
Technology
Services Division > Info/Comm Tech (ICT)
Canberra
Closing - 19 Jan 2023
Division Overview
Technology services – responsible for the operation of high-quality, trusted, reliable and secure national digital health infrastructure and health support systems.
Primary Purpose of Position
The Agency is seeking a suitability qualified IT Support Analyst passionate about delivering consistent excellence, client-focused, agile and solutions-based thinker, to join our Technology Services Division.
This role provides fantastic opportunities for candidates at all levels of their career, from just graduated and seeking to grow their experience to seasoned IT Support Analysts who are looking for career progression or just a new work home to showcase their skills.
As an IT Support Analyst, you will be required to work as part of a high-performing Division within a complex environment. The primary responsibilities of this role include organising activity workflow, conducting investigations, and undertaking procedural, administrative support, or operational tasks. In addition, you will also be accountable for the IT Service Desk, User Support, and Basic Administration of the Agency’s Business Applications/Systems, End User Computing, and other related technology.
You will work in our amazing IT Support team, specifically responsible for the business systems and general IT used across the Agency, and collaborating deeply across the Branch and broader Agency to deliver outcomes.
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https://www.innovationaus.com/fixing-regional-mobile-is-the-albanese-govts-nbn-moment/
Fixing regional mobile is the Albanese govt’s NBN moment
Mark Gregory
Contributor
4 January 2023
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has decided not to grant authorisation for the proposed regional mobile network arrangements between Telstra and TPG Telecom.
In doing so the ACCC has thrown down the gauntlet to the Albanese Government by arguing that infrastructure competition in regional and remote areas will remain a key plank of ACCC telecommunications competition policy.
The ACCC’s ideological position is unsound, and you don’t have to look very far to find evidence of this.
New Zealand has a successful telecommunications market with mandatory domestic roaming and a government funded black spot program that has funded more than 800 active sharing (neutral host) mobile towers used by all of New Zealand’s mobile network operators.
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Were the decades and billions spent on James Webb telescope worth it?
Thankfully, we have people who can conceive an instrument that records infinitesimal waves of energy emitted around the time the Earth was formed.
David Von Drehle
Jan 1, 2023 – 12.00am
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” So says Hamlet to his school chum after a chilling encounter with a ghost. The line went through my mind as I looked at the first image released by NASA from the James Webb Space Telescope, the marvel of engineering and audacity recently parked and unfolded in an orbit roughly 1 million miles from home.
Operating so far away gives the Webb supersensitivity to infrared light that cannot be seen by the human eye. It can see much, much farther than the low-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. And because light travels at a constant speed, seeing farther in distance is the same as looking more deeply back in time.
The image is a picture from 4.6 billion years ago. This is only the first of many mind-boggling concepts contained in the spellbinding frame. A pitch-black background is speckled with thousands of distinct lights, some starlike in their brilliance, others smudgy, and still others smaller than pinpoints.
All these distinct lights are contained in a tiny speck of space. How tiny? Scientists proposed this way of envisioning: take a single grain of sand, hold it out at arm’s length and compare it to your entire field of vision. That is the speck of space Webb looked at to acquire its first observation.
Those thousands of lights in that speck of space are not individual stars like our sun. They are entire galaxies. The one galaxy we know best, our own Milky Way, contains anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars.
And here it might be helpful to spend a moment with the concept of a billion.
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Enjoy!
David.
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