Nathan Eddy

The portable point of care devices, which give remote providers the capability to image, measure and record wounds and skin healing data, will be deployed across Western Australia.

Many areas of the patient access workflow remain manual due to a combination of factors, among them the high cost of implementing a new technology.

A recent pilot study, whose results were published in the Medical Journal of Australia, compared the results 2D screenings with 3D mammography technology, known as tomosynthesis.

The leading-edge technology could provide vastly faster power and processing speeds, and enable fundamentally different algorithmic search and data homogenization strategies.

The two funds are the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Translation Fund, which boasts initial funding of $30 million over five years, and the Translational Innovation Fund, which will provide $50 million in funding over six years.

The partnership is part of the Swinburne-based Victorian Medical Device Partnering Program, an ideas incubator that supports the development of medical technologies.

A new report from EY shows how health systems need to embrace AI, social, mobile, analytics, cloud and sensor technologies to unlock the potential of their data.

Researchers will also focus on adapting existing clinical decision support methods from the acute care sector, collaborating with clinicians to understand reliable signs of patient deterioration.

More than half of those surveyed say online tools have helped improve their relationship with their primary care provider, with growing appetite for online chat and diagnosis tools.

The ACI platform, which the companies say can ease administrative burden by streamlining documentation, has been rolled out to some customers in beta and is planned to launch in early 2020 across several specialties.