Staff Writer

A new app unveiled in Adelaide promises to significantly improve the assessment and subsequent treatment of scars by giving clinicians access to a huge range of reference resources.

St John Ambulance WA is now using mobile and virtual reality in its first aid training, allowing people to use virtual reality to learn how to respond to an emergency, hone lifesaving skills and make first aid more available.

The number of data breaches involving My Health Record has risen year-on-year, from 35 incidents in the last financial year to 42 incidents this year, a report by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has shown.

Ambulance Victoria will soon deploy a predictive analytics platform that gives its paramedics access to real-time information, enhancing and accelerating its decision making as the need for emergency services grows.

A national study into the risks of CT scans in children that was delayed by three years waiting for Commonwealth approval to access data has supported findings that Australian health and medical researchers face a myriad of problems around data accessibility for research.

Australia’s healthcare industry and government stakeholders need to focus on four key areas – technology development, regulation, investment and implementation – to stimulate a thriving digital health industry.

The Australian Government has launched a first-of-its-kind data tool that lets the healthcare industry compare Australian data on health and healthcare with comparable international data.

Almost 40 per cent of Australian healthcare professionals have nominated better information sharing as their number one wish for improving population health.

Two major IT players have teamed up to deploy deep-learning AI to cut the time between medical imaging, diagnosis and beginning treatment.