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Kate Toon, the My Business Awards "Australian Businesswoman of the Year", is helping spread a little joy to the front-line health workers doing it tough in Sydney’s most affected COVID-19 postcodes, by sending cookies of positivity as a way of saying thanks.

Telemedicine will save the healthcare industry US$21 billion in costs by 2025, rising from US$11 billion in 2021, according to a new global study.

Key take outs:

• The Australian healthcare sector faces significant challenges and opportunities highlighted by COVID-19.
• Healthcare providers need to put the patient at the centre of everything they do.
• Technology such as artificial intelligence, big data, and wearable sensors connected to the Internet of Things will play a significant role in putting the patient at the centre of the experience.
• Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand has explored these themes in depth in its latest whitepaper titled A human-centric vision for the future of healthcare. The full whitepaper is available for download here.

GUEST RESEARCH: The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the preparedness of Australia’s healthcare sector into sharp focus. As the immediate disruption from the pandemic recedes, the Australian healthcare sector will continue to face significant challenges and opportunities. Healthcare providers will need to gain a clear understanding of the landscape to determine where they sit and how they will compete in a rapidly changing environment, according to Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand.

Tuesday, 28April 2020

11AM SGT / 1PM AEST / 3PM NZST:

ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES is rolling out a series of focused webinars across its different verticals. 

Tuesday, 28April 2020

11AM SGT / 1PM AEST / 3PM NZST:

ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES is rolling out a series of focused webinars across its different verticals. 

Glenn Uidam, Senior Director, IBX Operations, Equinix Australia

GUEST OPINION: SPONSORED NEWS. There’s a vast difference between living and living well. Between surviving and thriving. For Australians, technology has already resulted in impressive improvements to the way in which we live, but the opportunity to do more is enormous.

The Australian Digital Health Agency has reported a 140% growth of healthcare providers sharing and collaborating on patient information following the upgrading of the My Health Record system announced in September.

Optus Business has sealed a multi-year partnership for digital network and telecommunications services with private hospital group, Ramsay Health Care.

One of Australia’s four big banks, the Commonwealth Bank, has entered into an exclusive partnership with Australian medical technology provider, Whitecoat, to deliver a best-in-class integrated payments, claiming, and healthcare directory solution.

Australian-listed software as a service company ShareRoot is collaborating with St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne to apply its MediaConsent platform as a way to improve the dynamics of clinical trial recruitment.

A new technology platform which allow patients in private and public hospitals to connect directly with medical specialists and exchange information on fees, wait times and locations before consultation, is now being trialled in New South Wales.

The data of 150,000 patients, who had told their GPs that they did not wish to share it, was shared because the patients' objections were not sent to Britain's National Health Service due to errors in third-party software supplied by a company known as TPP.

Australia’s first large-scale trial of telehealth has shown that the healthcare system could save up to $3 billion a year, according to the CSIRO which trialled telehealth systems with 287 patients over a 12-month period.

Australian digital health platform for practitioners and patients, HealthKit, has partnered with Coviu, a CSIRO Data61 startup, to integrate its browser-based telehealth platform to give video consultation capability to its 15,000 health practitioners.

The federal government’s recently re-launched My Health Record secure, online system of people’s health information to be shared with doctors and healthcare professionals, has already surpassed four million records, equal to around 17% of Australians.