Counties Manukau Health in New Zealand is trialling a digital information system to help patients receive the right care for them. A screen in Middlemore Hospital ED and a free smartphone app show patients real-time information comparing the total waiting and treatment times for urgent care (not emergency care) within […]
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Australian health region benefits from bedside tech
Patientrack’s new Bed Board module will replace bedside whiteboards for ACT Health, meaning healthcare professionals no longer need to manually write updates. The system pulls in data from multiple systems to display critical patient information at the patient bedside including demographics to aid in positive patient identification, patient location, estimated date […]
Amazon expands HIPAA eligible machine learning
Amazon AWS has announced that Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Transcribe are now U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible services. Amazon Transcribe is a speech-to-text service that automatically creates text transcripts from audio files will allow healthcare organisations to create text transcripts calls with […]
Elliott and Veritas team up to buy Athenahealth for $5.7bn
Athenahealth has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Veritas Capital for $135 per share in cash. Athenahealth is a leading provider of network-enabled services for hospital and ambulatory customers in the States, the sale price of $5.7bn represent a per share purchase price premium of approximately 12 percent over the company’s […]
