In collaboration with developer Bonobo, Dr Rhys Clark from Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth has released “iDoctor”, a software application (app) for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices, and also the iPad. Primarily targeted at junior doctors working in hospital settings, iDoctor off...

IHE Australia has released the official results from its “Connectathon”, which was held over the course of a week in late April. During an IHE Connectathon, software developers endeavour to enhance their products and demonstrate an ability to exchange data with other relevant systems. If succ...

The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) is preparing for the peak group’s Health Informatics Conference 2010 (HIC2010), which will commence on Tuesday, August 24, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. With a theme of ”Informing the business of healthcare”, the confer...

In 2010 the pressing need for Health reform unites the world. Australia is one of many countries seriously considering alternatives to our current model of care delivery with an increasing emphasis on connecting care communities from hospitals to home‑based care. While hospitals remain a core f...

The US-based Spellex Corporation has announced an Australian version of their medical and pharmaceutical spelling software, which integrates with products from Microsoft as well as a range of other programs. The release includes thousands of new medical and pharmaceutical words with proper spelli...

Database Consultants Australia (DCA) has entered into an agreement to acquire ArgusConnect, the developer of the Argus suite of secure messaging solutions. The acquisition was announced prior to the formal process taking place in response to market speculation in early May, with the acquisition b...

Australian Health IT developers gathered in Canberra in April to enhance and test their products’ capacity to securely transfer clinical information. The event proper ran from Monday through Friday of the week starting 19 April, with an Open Day hosted on Wednesday giving interested parties th...

Clinics in the Northern Territory have commenced rolling out a new secure messaging solution designed to improve their ability to connect to the Territory’s Shared Electronic Health Record (SEHR). Dubbed the Web Services Messaging Application (WSMA), the technology has been released as an Appli...