The Australian Digital Health Agency has announced an emergency department My Health Record pilot to develop a model that optimises clinician access to patients' health information, such as medicines, diagnostic test results and GP consultations, that may not otherwise be available ...
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2020 vision: 5 technologies rapidly changing healthcare
From smart robotics to ground-breaking treatments, innovative healthcare technologies are evolving at breakneck speed. These innovations are taking hold in hospitals across the country, and are set to revolutionise the way healthcare is provided in the future. We’ve pinpointed five ...
More »Are flying maggots part of healthcare’s future?
When a patient in a remote community needs medical supplies from the closest major city, the path of least resistance might be use of a drone that can travel long distances. Researchers from Griffith University have explored the potential for ...
More »Memory aids make brains lazy: myth or on the money?
Are smartphones making our brains lazy? It’s a common concern about the devices and their handy memory tools but Australian researchers say these applications are more helpful than harmful. Writing in The Conversation, Dr Dana Wong, senior lecturer in clinical ...
More »AI that predicts lifespans could one day help to tailor treatments
What if a computer could tell you when you will die? The concept sounds like an elevator pitch for a science fiction novel but University of Adelaide researchers are working to bring the idea to life. Recent research, published in ...
More »Brain stimulation boosts benefits of exercise: study
Brain stimulation during exercise might look like something straight out of science fiction but the combination could one day be used to help older Australians and people who have had a stroke, new research suggests. Researchers from the University of ...
More »Hospital trials facial-recognition technology to ID patients
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 ...
More »Acute stroke care at a button press: system links clinicians, neurologists
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 & ...
More »Levelling up healthcare and rehabilitation with video games
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 ...
More »Tech-based intervention allows patients to track their own nutrition
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 ...
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