Capturing the Opportunity of Digital Transformation
How effectively are health systems and hospitals using information to drive improved care processes? Are they fully leveraging the information opportunity that is before them?
How effectively are health systems and hospitals using information to drive improved care processes? Are they fully leveraging the information opportunity that is before them?
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 needs to have healthcare […]
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) healthcare communities. The facilities visited included: Mass General Healthcare […]
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 involved delays and inconvenience for both patients and clinicians. This translates to both […]
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 drivers of innovation with these facilities. The three projects […]
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This new report looks at the contribution of information technology to innovation and digitization in Australian hospitals.
The Health Innovation Roundtable was established to bring together representatives from more than 20 hospitals in Australia