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Overhaul ‘clunky’ My Health Record, Medicare task force recommendsHealthcare IT news - (Tuesday February 7, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | A task force of healthcare leaders has given their recommendations to invigorate Australia's primary healthcare, including the need to upgrade My Health Record and enable more health data sharing. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The Australian government assembled the Strengthening Medicare Task Force to help identify the "most pressing investments needed in primary care." It is focused on pointing out immediate actions to strengthen Medicare, the country's universal healthcare scheme, and lay the foundations for longer-term reform and investment in the primary care system. Their recommendations also build on the government's 10-year plan for primary care. One of the task force's major recommendations is to "modernise" MHR....
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ACT project tries out new mental health care navigation platformHealthcare IT news - (Tuesday February 7, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | A new project led by the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre is working on a care navigation platform to help patients and healthcare providers navigate the mental healthcare system.This initiative also joins the University of Canberra, Swinburne University of Technology, ACT's primary health network Capital Health Network, Psicost Research Association, and charity organisation Bupa Foundation. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The research team has designed and developed a multi-applicable, multi-modal and multi-level framework and related tools called Local Mental Health Care Operational Navigation Chart (MChart), which is currently being tested and reviewed for effectiveness in the ACT. It has two variants: the MChart-P for clinicians, decision-makers and planners...
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Cyberattack round-up: Financial warnings and new threats to hospitalsHealthcare IT news - (Monday February 6, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | Hospital financial ratings remain vulnerable to cyberattack fallout, according to a new assessment from Fitch Ratings. Meanwhile, hacktivists and ransomware gangs are recycling ransomware strains, and hacker affiliates are offering bigger payouts. Those are just a few of the healthcare cybersecurity trends we're watching this week.Coordinated KillNet DDoS attacks highlight potential for ratings dips Fitch Ratings says the recent coordinated distributed denial-of-service attacks on hospital websites such as ChristianaCare's aren't likely to drive any downgrades at this time, but cyberattacks that compromise service and affect a hospital’s financial profile could. Last week the pro-Russian hacktivist group KillNet, known for its DDoS attacks on critical infrastructure in nations supporting...
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Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health toolHealthcare IT news - (Monday February 6, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes.THE PROBLEM Ultimately, the health system was looking for ways to improve patient engagement first and foremost and then wanted to see how it could use automated tools to improve outcomes. It also recognized the foundational changes occurring in the health system – especially when it came to consumer behavior and increased competition from nontraditional healthcare disruptors. The organization wanted to offer its patients tools and options that support their personal healthcare journeys in these ways. PROPOSAL "We implemented Amwell Automated Care Programs...
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Dr. Anne-Maree Cantwell, Empactful Capital, on Investing in the Future of Digital Health InnovationThe Pulse by Wharton Digital Health - (Monday February 6, 2023) - AI/ Podcasts/ The Pulse | |
 | Subscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Apple, Spotify or Twitter.Dr. Anne-Maree Cantwell, Partner at Empactful CapitalIn this episode, I sat down with Anne-Maree Cantwell, Venture Partner at...
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Australia officially opens connected health research hubHealthcare IT news - (Monday February 6, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | The Australian Research Council has formally launched its latest research hub for connected health at the University of New South Wales.Backed by A$24 million ($16.6 million) funding by the ARC's Industrial Transformation Research Program, the ARC Research Hub for Connected Sensors for Health focuses on developing wearable health technologies. This new research hub, which became operational in August, brings together seven universities and 26 Australian companies to build a national end-to-end ecosystem that will design, manufacture, and commercialise clinical-grade sensors and predictive analytics. It integrates existing Australian capabilities in sensors, security, software systems, data analytics, and digital health. WHY IT MATTERS The research hub,...
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India pilots digital universal vaccination platformHealthcare IT news - (Monday February 6, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | India has started piloting a new digital platform that tracks the routine immunisation of mothers and newborn children across India. Called U-WIN, the online system digitises the government's Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP), which is providing protection against 12 vaccine-preventable diseases to around 26.7 million newborns and 29 million expectant mothers each year. Through this, records of all vaccinations of pregnant women and newborns and their delivery outcomes will be made. It will remind their upcoming vaccine shots and automatically follow up on dropouts. Digital registrations to the portal have been ongoing in pilot areas, which include two districts in each state and Union Territory. WHY IT MATTERS U-WIN, which replicates the Co-WIN platform...
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Health Carousel: Keeping up with the digital trends while providing a personalized career experienceeHealth Radio Network - (Friday February 3, 2023) - eHealth Radio Network/ Podcasts | |
 | John Sebastian, the CEO of Health Carousel, one of the largest and fastest growing healthcare staffing and workforce management solutions in the US joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care and Health News Channels. John discusses the important balance of keeping up with the digital trends, continuing to provide a personalized career experience, and ensuring we are contributing to an ethical and sustainable workforce in healthcare. Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest John Sebastian discuss the following: Can you tell us a bit about Health Carousel and the types of challenges the company offers solutions for? Your company’s higher purpose is...
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Virtual care enables BrightView Health to increase outpatient accessHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 3, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | BrightView Health, a behavioral health facility that specializes in addiction treatment and substance abuse, already was using telehealth when the COVID-19 pandemic and associated response happened. The organization mostly was using telehealth between its various locations.THE PROBLEM However, BrightView did not have a secure communications platform to engage with patients either synchronously or asynchronously. "So, the pandemic and the lockdowns created some potential gaps in access to care that we needed to predict and fill," said Navdeep S. Kang, chief clinical officer at BrightView Health and a fellow with the Obama Foundation. "We looked at several platforms to implement secure communications. "We were specifically interested...
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Bipartisan House bill proposes permanent telehealth benefitsHealthcare IT news - (Friday February 3, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | The Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act would amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to treat benefits for telehealth services like excepted benefits.WHY IT MATTERS The bill aims to keep stand-alone telehealth benefits separate, not as a replacement of medical plans, offering them under a group health plan or group health insurance coverage as excepted benefits. An excepted benefit allows employers to finance additional medical care, like vision or dental coverage, according to theCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services FAQsfor insurance agents and brokers, requiring Congress...
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