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What to expect in Asia-Pacific health IT in 2025?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Janine Cox, Operations Director – Health System Integration and Innovation, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), Australia We are hoping to see an improvement in the utilisation of video telehealth within residential aged care homes. Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.

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Neighbourhood Health: new priority for the NHS, one to watch for the UK HealthTech community

Lloyd Price

The concept of Neighbourhood Health, as outlined in recent NHS England guidelines and government rhetoric, focuses on integrating primary care, community health, mental health, and social care services into cohesive "neighbourhood teams." smartwatches) to monitor conditions like diabetes at home.

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Contractors signed for NSW Health's network infra upgrade and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telstra, NTT contracted for major ICT upgrade in NSW health facilities eHealth NSW disclosed that telecommunications companies Telstra and NTT were tapped to upgrade the wired and wireless networking infrastructure of more than 1,100 public health facilities across New South Wales.

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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Staff leading on the implementation of digital health, who are not working in front-line service delivery, have been given dedicated support and had their teams expanded to deploy digital health and care services in response to COVID-19 in areas including: primary care, care at home and public health.

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COVID-19: a technologist’s tale

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years. Amongst these tragic circumstances there has also been a lot of attention on technology in healthcare and public health.

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Should NHS Doctors charge for patient appointments?

Lloyd Price

A survey conducted by online general practice magazine, Pulse found that over 50% of GPs would welcome appointment fees as a way to make their workload more manageable. As is the case in the NHS dentistry market, some patients will be exempt from the fees, such as children, the elderly, disabled and unemployed.