Australia has set new priorities for digital health in the medium term as its health system aligns with the increasing demand for precision medicine. The federal government recently announced the updated National Digital Health Strategy 2023-2028, which is aiding the health system’s pivot towards personalised and preventative healthcare. WHAT’S IN IT The five-year strategy, which builds
Editor’s Note: This is part two of our two-part interview with Dr. Melek Somai. To read part one, click here. Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network is an academic health system based in eastern Wisconsin. It embarked on a journey to foster disruptive innovations by establishing Inception Health as an independent vehicle to
Following an investigation into the breach of the protected health information of 14,000 individuals, the U.S. Health and Human Services and the Office of Civil Rights announced a $40,000 settlement with Green Ridge Behavioral Health, which provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management and psychotherapy. WHY IT MATTERS The Maryland-based practice reported in February 2019 that its
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center released a bulletin on Monday following a February 21 cyberattack on Change Healthcare, resulting in widespread payment processing outages. WHY IT MATTERS Health-ISAC said in a threat intelligence bulletin Monday, that based on information published by intelligence firm RedSense, Change Healthcare and other organizations were breached through the ConnectWise ScreenConnect vulnerabilities
Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network is an academic health system based in eastern Wisconsin. It embarked on a journey to foster disruptive innovations by establishing Inception Health as an independent vehicle to drive innovation and digital transformation, focusing on digital health technology. Artificial intelligence is at the heart of some of its
Telstra Health will be bringing Canada-headquartered Smile Digital Health’s health data and data integration platform to Australia and New Zealand. This comes as part of a recently signed strategic partnership between the two companies, aiming to accelerate interoperability and the secure exchange of information across health and aged care settings in the region. Based on
Six years ago, the Children’s Nebraska health system had no single source of truth when it came to scheduling. THE PROBLEM Children’s Nebraska was growing by 10% per year from a provider standpoint, and at that time, scheduling and on-call generation was done in a myriad of systems across departments – from being written down
Clearwater announced Thursday that it is developing a repeatable and scalable cybersecurity and compliance program for the 25m Health Fund to deploy across the organization’s portfolio companies. WHY IT MATTERS Clearwater said in an announcement Thursday that through the partnership 25m Health is providing its portfolio companies with a cost-effective solution for building the cybersecurity and
Change Healthcare, a software and data analytics vendor that offers revenue cycle management, clinical decision support and other operations tools, announced Wednesday it took its systems offline due to a cyber incident. “Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we took immediate action to disconnect
Launched to help address health equity challenges facing Black cardiology patients, ChristianaCare said its digital medication adherence platform, developed with Story Health, has delivered significant improvements in outcomes for patients with hypertension and heart failure – two to three times in some key metrics. The health system plans to expand access to more patients. WHY