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GUEST OPINION: Growing patient expectations are placing higher demands on the healthcare sector than ever before. The instant availability of patient data means X-Rays, MRI scans, ultrasound images and laboratory test results are sent directly to monitors on the wall or a doctor’s tablet.

Bendigo Hospital in regional Victoria is trialing a “world first” medical device - the Medical Quality-of-Care Pressure Injury Management System - from Australian medtech company Lenexa Medical.

New technology designed to streamline communication between hospitals and community health providers is allowing clinicians to share important patient information faster and improve patient care.

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.

A $2.1 million project by the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) to collect patient data in one place is aimed at better equipping healthcare workers when making critical and life-saving clinical decisions.

Hospitals that come under New Zealand's Waikato District Health Board have suffered a "cyber security incident" which has caused a complete outage of its information services.

Australia’s ageing population will see health services continue to be stretched in coming years unless greater efficiencies are embraced led by modern digital technologies that patients increasingly expect, according to the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA).

COVID-19 provided fertile ground for attackers to sow confusion and take advantage of healthcare organisations on the front lines, according to global cybersecurity company Varonis.

Australian consumers and businesses should be more security conscious when using IoT devices, according to a senior executive from digital security products vendor Avast who issued his warning following a recent cyber attack on security camera provider Verkada.

The number of successful ransomware attacks on US public sector bodies fell during the period from January to April month-on-month even as the COVID-19 crisis intensified, but that trend now appears to be reversing, the New Zealand-headquartered security firm Emsisoft says.

VENDOR NEWS:  As businesses emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown, we’re starting to hear stories of organisations that thrived and those that struggled to adapt to a predominantly remote workforce. One example of a business that got it right is Peninsula Health, which covers a number of health facilities and hospitals in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas of Victoria.

VENDOR NEWS:  As businesses emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown, we’re starting to hear stories of organisations that thrived and those that struggled to adapt to a predominantly remote workforce. One example of a business that got it right is Peninsula Health, which covers a number of health facilities and hospitals in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas of Victoria.

Google Cloud has launched a virtual agent support program designed to help healthcare, public health, and non-profit industries quickly build and deploy chatbots that can help serve their customers who are looking for information during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Legislation passed by the Australian Parliament on Wednesday will make it possible for citizens to opt out of the My Health Record digital health program at any time.

Two Australian hospitals have been officially recognised as the first hospitals to adopt the highest international standards of digital health at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society AsiaPac18 Conference and Exhibition.

Medibank has launched a ‘find a provider’ tool designed to help users of its services and their GPs find out how much, and how often, a specialist charges out-of-pocket costs.

Multinational healthcare diagnostics company Laboratory Corporation of America — better known as LabCorp — suffered a ransomware attack which hit one of its genetic-testing units over the last weekend.

New Zealand-based global healthcare provider Orion Health has released a new version of its Enterprise 18.1 patient care solution which it says is designed to help hospitals operate more efficiently.

US-based global health information technology company InterSystems has been selected by the Northern Territory Government to implement its TrakCare core clinical systems renewal programme (CCSRP).

How much does a Russian ransomware boss earn? Less than you might think, even when targeting the health industry.