Altera Digital Health completes Sunrise EMR rollout in Gippsland
Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise EMR has been fully deployed across major regional and sub-regional health services within the Gippsland Health Alliance in Victoria.
This comes as The third phase of Sunrise implementation in GHA emergency department facilities has been completed.
According to Altera, the deployment is Australia’s largest EMR implementation on Microsoft Azure. The medical IT company won a competitive bid to provide an EMR solution for GHA in late 2017 with its first deployment at Latrobe Regional Hospital.
NZ Archives reveals historic health record breach
The National Archives of New Zealand Archives NZ has revealed instances of unauthorized access to historical health records that happened three months ago.
On September 19, a former employee of Archives NZ informed the agency that some digitized health records dating back to the 1950s had been made in open access by mistake. These recordings, which were restricted to the public, inadvertently became viewable to public users of the Rosetta digital imaging system.
Records include Sunnyside Hospital admission records from 1952-56; a 1968 diary and an admission book from 1966-1973 for admitted criminals.
The agency then immediately restricted access to the records and formally notified both the Privacy Commission and Te Whatu Ora of the potential privacy breach.
“We sincerely apologize for this incident, which was caused by human error. We want to reassure you that immediate remedial steps have been taken. We understand if you may feel anxious or worried. worried about this breach of information,” the chief archivist said in the statement.
So far, it is known only that two members of the public accessed the aforementioned records in August. According to Archives NZ, “it could not be determined whether images were downloaded or shared during access events.”
However, the agency has “a high degree of confidence that scope is limited and that this is a one-off case of human error rather than systemic problems.”
Monkeypox vax platforms deployed in NSW
eHealth NSW has helped set up two digital platforms to support NSW Health’s chickenpox vaccination campaign.
It launched the Chickenpox Immunization Administration for Public Health Workers. Currently operating in NSW’s 27 mpox vaccination clinics, the system provides end-to-end administration tools, including automated workflow and clinic capacity management.
The other platform is an online booking portal for citizens who want to get mpox vaccinations. Nearly 4,000 people who used the portal received the shots within the first month of launch.
WA Health launches $3 million prize to deliver telecare solutions in Pilbara
Western Australia’s Department of Health has initiated a global challenge to provide telecare in the Pilbara.
BHP Group Limited, Rio Tinto and the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund have teamed up to take on the A$5 million (US$3.3 million) prize challenge, which seeks to develop a Research-based technology solutions to improve health outcomes for people living in remote areas. to the Pilbara region.
WA Health is currently accepting submissions from industry, the private sector, public sector agencies, universities, research institutes or collaborations from international organisations.
