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 ...

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 ...

“You would have to pry it from my cold dead hands.” This was one of the comments shared by the participants of a study on the views of nurse managers and student nurses concerning the use of smartphones and tablets ...

An Australian university has swapped out traditional journal clubs for a Twitter-based group to improve students’ engagement with evidence-based practice. A research team from the University of Technology Sydney, led by Dr Caleb Ferguson from the Graduate School of Health, ...

Jeremy Paton is team engagement solutions lead at Avaya Australia and New Zealand, the local office of the California-based technology firm. After more than a century in the telephonic hardware industry, Avaya is transitioning into a software-led communications enabler. Healthcare is one industry ...

There's a new way for health professionals and consumers to let policymakers know their opinions on the My Health Record system, telehealth, innovation and other aspects of digital health. The Australian Digital Health Agency has launched a national consultation with the general ...

Serious games are a big part of health education’s future, says a nursing academic who has helped develop a game that explores safety risks and hazards in care environments. The application Safe Environments was developed by University of the Sunshine ...

Nurses have seen the value of touch and must keep it in mind as healthcare technology advances. This was one of the key messages Australian academics made in a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Nursing. They wrote that ...

Nursing students may soon be taking classes in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn if education providers heed advice from the authors of an article published in Nursing Informatics 2016 on the importance of social media training for undergrads. University of Tasmania ...

It’s critical that nurses be at the forefront of the movement into the digital health era and are heavily involved in leading change, not just for the care team and patient but to ensure they are advocating for their own ...