Telstra, NTT contracted for main ICT improve in NSW well being services
eHealth NSW disclosed that telecommunications corporations Telstra and NTT had been tapped to improve the wired and wi-fi networking infrastructure of greater than 1,100 public well being services throughout New South Wales.
Hospitals and neighborhood well being centres will “progressively bear a refresh of native networking {hardware} and software program that underpin our more and more digital hospital environments,” mentioned Ian Schrader, infrastructure director at eHealth NSW.
The key community infrastructure improve is a part of NSW Well being’s Well being Grade Enterprise Community initiative for buying and managing statewide ICT community infrastructure.
North Queensland GPs leverage AI for MyMedicare registrations
Basic practices below the Northern Queensland Main Well being Community have adopted AI know-how to spice up voluntary affected person registrations to MyMedicare.
NQPHN lately partnered with well being tech firm Healthily to supply GPs throughout North Queensland the GoShare Voice know-how to help in figuring out and reaching out to eligible sufferers for MyMedicare registration. The AI-based instrument additionally allows automated outbound cellphone calls with sufferers who haven’t responded initially to SMS invitations to MyMedicare to additional focus on registration choices and permit them to pose queries.
MyMedicare is the federal authorities’s voluntary affected person registration mannequin that goals to formalise the connection between sufferers, their GPs, and first care groups.
With funding below NQPHN’s MyMedicare Mini Steady High quality Enchancment, the adoption of GoShare Voice can even help GPs in getting ready for impending adjustments to subsidised continual situations administration objects below the Medicare Advantages Scheme in November.
Austin Well being’s Digital Ward now business-as-usual
Austin Well being’s technology-enabled at-home care service, which was piloted in 2021 by way of federal authorities funding, is now operating “business-as-usual.”
The Hospital within the Dwelling & Digital Care Digital Ward now accommodates as much as 10 sufferers at a time, specializing in excessive scientific acuity sufferers similar to cardiac and haematology sufferers. They’re monitored utilizing a watch or patch and are seen in near-real time by a hospital-based care crew through teleconference calls.
In February, the Digital Ward began integrating knowledge from wearable gadgets into the EMR, enhancing affected person knowledge administration.