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How to ensure data integrity in the My Health Record era

Overall, Australia’s healthcare system works a treat. But having a load of stakeholders—including Medicare, private health insurers, hospitals, specialists, nursing homes, and…

July 31, 2018 5:02 pm·

How two schoolmates shook up the global healthcare industry

Two Australians – a doctor and an engineer – launched the ‘private healthcare in tough conditions’ industry and grew a…

May 17, 2018 11:31 am·

Healthcare IT security needs a thorough checkup

A flood of industry-wide security breeches have seriously compromised Australia’s healthcare IT security. While gaining a lot of media attention…

November 30, 2017 4:58 am·

Disruption is coming to healthcare – are you ready?

How to adequately futureproof your business Healthcare professionals have largely been shielded from the disruption visited upon those working in…

November 10, 2017 3:20 am·

Bug up: entomophagy is a secret weapon for gym junkies

Skye Blackburn makes a living selling expensive bags of powder to gym goers – mainly men in their twenties and thirties.…

March 23, 2016 2:10 am·

Investing in happy, healthy workers

The health and wellbeing revolution is sweeping through workplaces, with forward-thinking companies making an effort to promote healthier lifestyles, more…

February 29, 2016 4:06 am·

What you need to know about strokes

Over 1,000 Australians have a stroke every week and will face long term disability and expensive treatments Getting cancer or…

October 29, 2015 1:06 am·

Eyes through the sky

Professor Yogesan Kanagasingam wasn’t short of career options when he moved to Australia two decades ago. That he’s a visiting…

October 13, 2015 4:00 am·

Telstra’s huge play in e-Health

Sophisticated medical care available in the comfort of home has long been a staple of science fiction. Telstra has now…

September 7, 2015 2:33 am·

Cough into my smartphone

Drawing on a lifetime of innovative research conducted across several countries, Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne of the University of Queensland…

August 20, 2015 7:06 am·

I told you I was sick

What’s the Aussie device that gives an immediate diagnosis for HIV, STIs and many other diseases? The labour intensive and…

June 25, 2014 3:39 am·

Testing times

If the experts are right, within the next five years we’ll all know our genetic make-up. But are we ready…

February 16, 2014 6:17 am·