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A patient with diabetes being assisted in using a mobile app to track their blood glucose level
By  Adam Ang 12:51 am December 17, 2024
Western Sydney Diabetes has rolled out a mobile diabetes management application from Taiwan as part of its patient engagement digitisation.  A centre led by the Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD), WSD has established an automated patient engagement programme with Health2Sync. It features the Health2Sync app which provides personalised lifestyle suggestions on managing blood sugar levels...
Healthcare provider sitting at a desk while looking at a tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:21 pm October 8, 2024
Kipu Health, a company that provides technology solutions for behavioral health, announced it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver a suite of original AI solutions for healthcare providers.  The initial offering within the AI suite is designed to simplify clinical workflows by transcribing patients' sessions, generating progress notes and delivering chart summaries for...
A doctor using a practice management software
By  Adam Ang 10:09 pm August 15, 2024
Latest GP platform incorporates AI in care planning, documentation A new AI-driven practice management platform has been launched in Australia. The system called MediPortal automates tasks and offers smart suggestions for optimising a GP business. Based on a media release, it has features such as medical billing, an AI-powered care plan generator, and an AI scribe.  The software has been...
A doctor reviewing a patient record on a desktop computer
By  Adam Ang 09:25 pm August 13, 2024
The Royal Australian College of GPs, the peak body for general practices in Australia, has released guidance for practitioners looking to adopt AI scribes to support clinical documentation. An AI scribe captures audio speech from a clinical encounter to convert it into text that becomes part of a patient's health record.  WHAT IT'S ABOUT RACGP initially suggests developing a policy on...
A nurse checking on their schedule in a digital tablet
By  Adam Ang 10:16 pm July 21, 2024
Personify Care integrates e-referral management Personify Care has recently entered into a partnership with Consultmed to digitise end-to-end patient pathways.  They will work on an interoperable solution by integrating Consultmed's e-referral platform with Personify Care's digital patient pathways. "This means that at every stage, from going to your GP, referral, triage, consent, pre-admission...
A doctor reviewing a patient's scan
By  Adam Ang 03:42 am June 27, 2024
Cloudphysician, a provider of ICU technology solutions in India, has scored $10.5 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners.  The round was also joined by Panthera Peak and Elevar Equity – from which it also raised $4 million in Series A funding in 2021.  WHAT IT DOES Established in 2017, the startup offers a smart ICU and emergency department system called RADAR. It features four AI-...
Lab researchers using a digital tablet in their research
By  Adam Ang 01:44 am June 21, 2024
New AI helps lower cost of drug discovery Australian researchers have created a new drug discovery AI tool for decoding protein-molecule interactions without the need for rendering costly 3D structures.  Their drug discovery model called PSICHIC (PhySIcoCHemICal) uses AI to identify unique "fingerprints" of specific protein-molecule interactions from sequence data. PSICHIC was able to "...
A nurse checking on tasks in their device
By  Adam Ang 05:26 am June 7, 2024
Personify Care, Foxo announce integrated patient management solution Personify Care and Foxo have announced a strategic partnership to combine their technologies for improved patient management.  Based on a media release, their integration will allow health services to access Foxo's enterprise communication technologies within Personify Care's digital patient pathway platform. Foxo users will...
A doctor using a laptop to write referrals
By  Adam Ang 08:15 pm May 5, 2024
Consultmed to replatform to InterSystems' IRIS for Health Consultmed is moving its referral management software to InterSystems IRIS for Health data platform.  The move comes as the health IT provider looks to "do integrations at scale." Hosted on Microsoft Azure, Consultmed enables referral management, virtual triage, Advice & Guidance, secure messaging, digital patient forms, requests for...
Person holding tablet in front of person wearing surgical mask
By  Trevor Dermody 12:53 pm April 23, 2024
Patient-management company ABOUT Healthcare announced it has acquired AI analytics platform Edgility, enabling ABOUT to offer patient progression solutions with predictive and prescriptive analysis.  ABOUT Healthcare, formerly Central Logic, provides a product-care suite that allows it to move patients in and out of various settings, such as acute care and home-based care.  Edgility’s AI solution...