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Capturing the Opportunity of Digital Transformation
Information is the fuel for the continuing transformation of healthcare, enabling a care system that can address the growing challenges of quality, equity and cost. But as health systems and hospitals digitally transform, as they increase their ability to acquire and process clinical information, t…
6 key lessons for innovation in healthcare
The big challenge in healthcare is how do we evolve more effectively, how can we respond to the rapidly escalating challenges of demand, complexity, equity and cost. This is not so much a search for a single solution, but rather the development of a process, as each organisation, region and country…
Roundtable Wrap Up: Healthcare Innovation at Cisco Live Melbourne 2017
In early February, a group of healthcare CXOs and innovation leaders toured a set of iconic US hospital innovation labs and healthcare innovation centres. Their aim was to study innovation process in the US and gather learnings appropriate for application in Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) healthca…
Bairnsdale Regional Health Service: Enhancing Accessibility of Regional Care
The practical reality of regional and remote communities in Australia is that they have been consistently disadvantaged in accessing specialist care. Getting access to specialised clinicians, whether it has been for emergence room consultation, acute patient care or post-operative support has often…
Innovation Learnings in Hospital Information System Deployments
The Digital Hospital Design group (Health Informatics Society of Australia) held an expanded roundtable discussion as part of the HIC 2016 conference. The focus of the discussion was around three large hospital innovation projects in Australia and the common lessons that could be learned on the dri…
Sydney Hospital Transforms Medication Management Process
Cybersecurity provides the foundation for innovation in a modern hospital; it is the underlying capability that enables the safe sharing of information. The free availability of information, where and when it is needed, is a powerful force for enabling new, more effective and efficient models of car…
Digital Hospital Design – Healthcare is a Hotbed of Innovation
One of the major paradoxes in healthcare is that, despite broad recognition that relentless cost, quality and equity pressures are dominant drivers for significant change, there remains only slow progress towards real innovation in care delivery. Many reflect that the risk-averse nature of healthcar…
Board Challenges in Managing Digitization and Innovation in Hospitals
Dandolo Partners has just released a new report looking at the contribution of information technology to innovation and digitization in Australian hospitals. The report is a result of discussions with a range of key hospital stakeholders (hospital executives and board members, government representat…
Health Innovation Roundtable: A Recap
As part of Cisco Live Melbourne, the Health Innovation Roundtable was established to bring together representatives from more than 20 hospitals in Australia, drawing on a broad range of roles including board members, CIOs, clinicians and administrative leads. The discussion was focused on the scale,…
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