Altera head of ANZ promoted to APAC VP
Todd Haebich, head of Australia and New Zealand at Altera Digital Health, will take on a new role as the company’s EVP for Asia-Pacific.
He first joined the company, then Allscripts, in 2015 as vice president of strategic accounts at ANZ before becoming general manager in 2018.
His responsibilities currently include the Southeast Asian market where he lived from 2008 to 2014 and held senior positions at leading healthcare IT companies such as Wolters Kluwer and Carestream Health.
“I am delighted and honored to lead Altera Digital Health in the Southeast Asian Market, where I intend to build on all the good work that has been delivered to make Altera Digital Health a market leader. ,” Haebich said of his promotion.
$1 million grant awarded to evaluate Orygen’s digital mental health platform
A University of Melbourne professor has received almost A$1.5 million ($1 million) in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council to evaluate the effectiveness of a health platform. digital psyche.
Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, who co-led the development of Orygen’s Moderated Online Social Therapy (MOST), will evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of the technology.
Rolling out up to 75 youth mental health services by 2020, MOST provides Australian youth aged 12 to 25 with online access and resources to mental health professionals. Safe and moderated online.
Multilingual NSW PROM portal
The Patient and Caregiver Portal on Health Outcomes and Patient Experience (HOPE) is available in nine languages other than English.
Developed by eHealth NSW, the aforementioned platform allows patients and their carers to share feedback on individual health outcomes and care experiences, which are then collected in real time and used. used as a patient-reported measure.
Based on a press release, HOPE is currently available in Greek, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese. Arabic translations of both patient and caregiver portals are also scheduled for release later this year.
