Monthly Archives: "July 2015"

The concept of recording an older person's health measurements via an automated telephone service for later analysis has won the Hack Ageing hackathon held in Melbourne at the weekend. Organised by IBM and health technology agency HealthXL, the hackathon was aimed at developing solutions that would improve the quality of life for the elderly in

via www.australianageingagenda.com.au From Think Tank to Just-Do-It, from little things big things grow.

via www.australianageingagenda.com.au NSW is currently the only state to stipulate a registered nurse on every shift in a high care facility. #agedcare #health #nurses #quality #care

via www.dailycare.com.au The first one stop shop for Aged Care service related inquiries from consumers of #agedcare. #health

The new Consumer Directed Care program starts on July 1 and is expected to impact about 200,000 people. It removes spending decisions worth billions of dollars from home care providers and hands them to families, and follows government concerns that some providers were not doing what they should. However, seniors with more money will have

The Five Year Forward View – the vision for the future of the NHS in England – will require radical change at every level of the healthcare system. We must take advantage of innovative ways of working, engage patients in their own care and implement new treatments and technologies. But the time lag between innovation

Telstra Health has just launched a new GP telemedicine service, ReadyCare, providing Australians the ability to connect with a doctor and receive advice, treatment, diagnosis and prescriptions using only their mobile phone or tablet. A team of registered Australian doctors have been hired to operate the service 24-hours-a-day, enabling consumers constant access to medical professionals,

The Department of Social Services (DSS) is investigating the development of an interface between hospital information systems and the new central client record for people receiving aged care services as part of the roll out of the My Aged Care system. While it is still early in the planning stage, the manager of the access

All new entrants to the federal aged care system will from today receive a central client record containing demographic, assessment and service information that is accessible by the person, their families and care providers. Also from today, healthcare professionals including GPs and nurses can make a referral to aged care services through the My Aged

“Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.” In the winter of 1969, shortly after a young woman he considered one of his brightest and most promising students committed suicide, Leo Buscaglia decided to deal with the flurry of confusion by starting an experimental class at the University of Southern California where