A Mount Isa midwife, a community health nurse from Grisborne and the team behind a dementia eHealth program have been named finalists in the 2017 HESTA Australian Nursing & Midwifery Awards. The awards recognise graduates, individuals and teams for their ...

Facial recognition technology might be something you would expect to see while watching a blockbuster movie or crime show, but for staff at Epworth Freemasons in Melbourne, it was part of the patient-identification process. Epworth HealthCare trialed the use of ...

The experts behind a Victorian telemedicine program that delivers acute stroke care to regional Victoria want the intervention to go national. Professor Christopher Bladin, program lead of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) project at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & ...

Video games are often in the news for negative reasons but one academic has urged health professionals to be open to the potential improvements the technology can make to the lives of people in their care. Stuart Smith, former USC ...

A 12-year trial headed by University of Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer Research lead surgeon professor Andreas Obermair has concluded that keyhole surgery should be the preferred standard of care for women needing a hysterectomy as a result of endometrial ...

In combat, just like in a hospital ED, you never know what is going to come through the door and you must always be prepared to help the people around you. These are the words of former British Army soldier ...

The hours of care provided by mental health carers is the equivalent to the work of 173,000 fulltime mental health support workers, a new report has found. The University of Queensland report said it would cost governments $13.2 billion to ...

Hospital patients have tested out a technology-based program that allows them to self-assess and self-monitor their nutrition at the bedside. Dr Shelley Roberts, from Griffith University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, and her colleagues trialed the usability and patient perceptions ...

Fire. Floods. Earthquakes. Terrorist attacks. These events may not be part of a health professional's typical working day but they might take over one. To help students and practitioners from different professional fields gain a common understanding of the principles ...

Delirium affects a quarter of older people in hospital and has the same death rate as a heart attack yet it is often missed or untreated by health professionals in hospitals, residential aged care facilities and the community. This concern ...