Telstra Health releases major upgrade to electronic medical record Written by Kate McDonald on
19 January 2021.
Telstra Health has launched an upgraded version of its electronic medical record (EMR) at Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney and St John of God Midland Hospital in Perth, with plans to launch to its entire client base this year.
Telstra Health says the upgrade has a number of key functionality improvements including new multi-tasking capabilities to enable staff to write progress notes documentation from anywhere in the EMR while viewing information from other modules. It also works natively on mobile devices.
Mal Thatcher named as Australian Digital Health Agency CTO Written by Kate McDonald on
19 January 2021.
Former Queensland Health chief health information officer and Mater Health CIO Mal Thatcher has been named as the Australian Digital Health Agency’s (ADHA) new chief technology officer.
Dr Thatcher was CIO of Mater Health in Brisbane for almost 11 years, where he led the development of its Smart Hospital strategy, and was an adjunct professor at QUT before taking on the inaugural role of chief health information officer with Queensland Health in September 2014.
The CHIO office was merged into eHealth Queensland in 2015 and Mr Thatcher left to do his PhD on IT governance in acute healthcare.
Telstra Health has developed a portal for the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) that is being integrated with clinical software systems Best Practice and MedicalDirector to allow healthcare professionals to access their patients’ bowel
LGH implements blood labelling standard and BloodNet interface in TrakCare Written by Kate McDonald on
18 January 2021.
Tasmania’s Launceston General Hospital has been able to cut the time it takes to receipt and record blood products by 75 per cent using the new blood labelling standard with a digital interface in its TrakCare laboratory information software to the National Blood Authority’s (NBA) BloodNet online ordering and inventory management system.
The Information Standard for Blood and Transplant (ISBT 128) is being adopted across the world to enhance safety and supply security and improve inventory management. It creates a unique identifier for blood products and in Australia replaces a local Codabar standard.