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Heidi AI scribe integration with HealthPathways
Streamliners has partnered with medical AI startup Heidi to integrate HealthPathways within an AI-powered clinical documentation platform.
The integration, based on a media statement, aims to allow clinicians using the Heidi platform to conveniently access HealthPathways' online clinical resource.
Streamliners and Heidi are now working to implement safety and security safeguards and gather and incorporate feedback from the HealthPathways' global network. This announcement follows the launch of Heidi's ad-free medical research tool, Heidi Evidence.
ADHA launches digital health teaching toolkit
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has introduced a new resource to support universities in embedding digital health education into health degrees across Australia.
Developed with the Australian Council of Senior Academic Leaders in Digital Health (ACSALDH), an initiative of the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, the online resource includes eight learning plans and 34 core topics covering technical concepts, professionalism, ethics, and person-centred outcomes, and is designed for integration into courses such as nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and allied health.
The creation of the Digital Health Train-the-Trainer Toolkit follows feedback cited by ADHA, which indicated that 60% of ACSALDH members, who are senior university educators, had not previously taught digital health.
Public healthcare services portal goes live in WA
The government of Western Australia has launched a new website consolidating public healthcare options to help citizens navigate services across the state.
The online portal, called Access Health WA, aggregates information on 14 bulk-billed Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, the WA Virtual Emergency Department offering video consultations for adults and children when referred, general practices with extended hours, expanded pharmacist prescribing services, and the 1800MEDICARE 24/7 helpline, which replaces Healthdirect as the state's primary free telephone triage service.
The rollout follows the expansion of Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and the WA Virtual Emergency Department.
ACT develops maternity survey dashboard
The Australian Capital Territory government has unveiled a publicly reported, ongoing Maternity Experience Survey Dashboard capturing feedback from women and birthing people who access public maternity services.
According to a media release, the dashboard publishes data collected since September 2024 through the ACT Maternity Experience Survey, which has received more than 500 responses to date, and is intended to inform service improvements, including continuity of midwifery care, breastfeeding advice, and postnatal support.
ACT claims to be the first in Australia to implement an ongoing public maternity experience dashboard, aligning with the national Woman-Centred Care Strategic Directions for Australian Maternity Services 2019 framework, which calls for patient-reported experience measures.
BPAC unveils marketplace for GP decision support tools
New Zealand-based health informatics software developer BPAC Clinical Solutions has come out with a new platform consolidating its healthcare decision support tools for general practices.
In a statement, the company said the new CareSuite enables access through patient management systems.
It also debuts with two tools: the ACC Certification Dashboard, developed with the ACC Performance Team to provide data on medical certification patterns and return-to-work timeframes, and the Brain Injury Screening Tool created with the Auckland University of Technology, which integrates with MedTech and Indici to deliver patient-specific guidance for suspected brain injury or concussion.
BPAC said additional decision support tools will be added to CareSuite over time as it transitions its existing suite into the single platform.
