Tag: digital health

An answer to our troubled health system

Posted on   |  by Bronwyn Le Grice
To truly reform our health system, we must transform the way our healthcare is delivered. And the answer, according to the Minister for Health, lies in embracing digital health technology....

My Health Record data sharing plans idle five years on

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
De-identified My Health Record data is yet to be shared with researchers and public health experts almost five years after the former federal government revealed controversial plans to source...

My Health Record app launches at last

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has launched its My Health Record mobile app a year later than first planned to improve access to the digital health record that has long been...

New delays strike My Health Record app

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A consumer-facing My Health Record smartphone app built for the federal government has hit further delays and is now not expected to be publicly released until early 2023, a...

Lifelong learning key to our digital health future

Posted on   |  by Nicole Bittar
With a mission to connect government, consumers, academia and researchers to deliver a cooperative approach to digital health innovation, the Digital Health CRC is at the forefront of the...

WA launches $5m regional health innovation challenge

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
To bolster innovation in regional health solutions, the Western Australian government has launched a $5 million global competition to innovate on healthcare delivery in the Pilbara. And on the...

Vic gets $2.4m digital health commercialisation hub

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Digital health commercialisation outfit ANDHealth has been given $2.4 million from the Victorian state government to establish a new health innovation and commercialisation hub. Funded through the state’s $20...

Genomic cancer research gets $61.2 million federal boost

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
In its latest announcement under the federal Modern Manufacturing Initiative, the government has funneled $61.2 million into a cancer drug project. The co-funded grants come under the collaboration stream...

Time for change: Health funding models

Posted on   |  by Dr Olga Kokshagina and Dr Gillian Vesty
There are growing calls from governments and the clinical profession to move toward a more individualised, patient-centric and value-based approach to health care. COVID-19 has highlighted the critical need...