Population Health

With HIMSS23 Europe approaching in June, Joana Feijó, business development director for Health Cluster Portugal, discusses digital health innovation and the development of a technology framework for hospitals, which will be showcased in Lisbon.

Also through its Virtual Care at Home program, Augusta has been able to show a reduced readmission rate of 7.4%.

It includes funding to modernise My Health Record.

As the PHE ends this week, Christopher Johnson, president and co-CEO of TeleTracking, which worked with HHS on data collection during the pandemic, offers his views on the transition – and discusses some potential lasting changes to healthcare.

It will incentivise patients to push them to self-manage their health conditions.

The service will help around 120 aged care residents each month avoid going to the ED.

Virtual nursing and virtual sitting can mitigate labor-related challenges in the acute care setting by allowing the monitoring of multiple patients remotely. Toby Eadelman, CTO at AvaSure, explains.

The mandate for aged care facilities to have a registered nurse on site around the clock kicks in this July and Datacom's Health Director Pauline Soo says attention now needs to turn to new ways of supporting staff and easing growing pressures.