A future where a health check-up could take just a few taps of your smartphone has moved a step closer.
AUT University has launched its Centre for eHealth, bringing together researchers with health sector partners to share developments in innovation.
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Under the three-year innovation partnership signed today, North Shore Hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit and Ward 10 (Haematology) will become hubs for the development of new technology supporting healthcare delivery.
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Claire Govier joined healthAlliance last year to lead a series of major technology upgrades, including the shift to the Windows 7 operating system for its 26,500 users.
Before the end of 2013, she became its chief information officer.
The e-health initiative aims to make two wards paperless, and if it's successful Waitemata DHB will spread it to other services.
Born prematurely, Maria Williams depends on the high-tech world of North Shore Hospital's special care baby unit. So it's fitting that the unit will become the hub for a new technological step forward.
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An RFP for a national integrated telehealth phone number to replace multiple service phone lines was due to be released last month (New Zealand Doctor, 12 March), but a letter from the Ministry of Health released last week says there has been a change of plan.
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