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COVID-19 has accelerated the digital transformation of Malaysian healthcare systems. During the Building a Successful Digital Transformation Roadmap in Malaysia webinar held on 6 May, Derrick Chan Kum Keong, CEO of Sunway Medical Centre Velocity, shared how they were able to design a digital health ecosystem that prioritises patients.
Bruce Winzar, executive director for Innovation and Digital Services and regional CIO of Australia-based Bendigo Health, also joined the session to share insights that his organisation gained in their digital health journey.
Empowering patients through systems interoperability
Derrick shared about his work at a diagnostics company prior to joining SMCV, where systems are integrated to provide patients with access to their records. In turn, this empowers patients to use their records at their own discretion.
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Midwifery researchers find teenage, obese and smoking mothers are less likely to breastfeed
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As a young new mother Amanda Franks felt uncomfortable to breastfeed.
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When Amanda Franks had a baby at age 16 at a country hospital, an experience with a midwife put her off breastfeeding her firstborn.
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A La Trobe University study has looked at data from 7,500 women who had a baby at Bendigo Health between 2010 and 2017
Researchers found only 4.2 per cent of teenage mothers went on to breastfeed their infants
Overall, mothers who smoke, are obese, or are in their teenage years are less likely to initiate breastfeeding
A global shortage of syringes could hamper Australia s coronavirus vaccine rollout by causing thousands of doses to be wasted.
The Pfizer vaccine, which started its rollout on Sunday morning, uses a custom-made low dead-space syringe, which Australia has ordered.
These syringes can extract an extra sixth dose from a vial of the vaccine, whereas standard syringes can only get five.
Pictured: Medical staff work at a pop-up Covid-19 testing site in Brighton, Melbourne on Saturday, February 6
The Pfizer vaccine, which started its rollout on Sunday morning, uses a custom-made low dead-space syringe, which Australia has ordered Even with a steady hand and a sharp eye, often you can t get out that last drop, Mike Toole from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne told the Herald Sun.