New Zealand launch of InterSystems’ cloud-based integration engine
InterSystems has launched its managed integration engine cloud service, HealthShare Health Connect Cloud, in New Zealand.
The platform-as-solution streamlines interoperability and data integration between clinical systems and applications. It also manages cloud migration infrastructure, allowing providers to “connect distributed data sets more quickly and easily and move workloads and information efficiently between cloud solutions and on-premise services.”
The company introduced the data integration engine in the country due to the increased demand for healthcare interoperability, especially the HL7 FHIR data sharing standard.
WA Health extends cloud contract with Atos
Atos will continue to provide managed services, hybrid cloud and core infrastructure services to Health Support Services (HSS), the IT services provider for WA Health, following a contract extension.
The French IT company was recently awarded a US$242 million ($159 million) contract to continue supporting the digitalisation of WA’s public health system over the next five years.
It has been working with HSS on WA Health’s digital transformation since 2019. That original contract included the provision of private cloud, managed public cloud, hybrid cloud orchestration, co-location and managed services for over 2,000 servers, hosting over 1,000 servers. applications and fully managed public cloud services using three hyperscalers.
Victoria completes the rollout of Altera EMR in Gippsland
The State Government of Victoria has committed to completing the implementation of an integrated EMR system in the rural Gippsland region.
The country recently announced $12 million in funding over four years to support the region’s health services in upgrading their systems. This includes the rollout of Altera Digital Health’s Sunrise EMR to the remaining healthcare services under the Gippsland Health Alliance (GHA): Gippsland Southern Health Service, Kooweerup Regional Health Service, Omeo District Health, Orbost Regional Health, South Gippsland Hospital and Yarram and District Health Service.
This comes Nearly a year after the GHA rolled out the EMR solution under its watch across major regional and sub-regional healthcare services.
The GHA implementation is, Altera claims, the broadest EMR implementation on Microsoft Azure in Australia.
First go-live of a cloud-based chemotherapy prescribing solution in South Africa
Altera has also begun delivering an enterprise chemotherapy prescribing system to South Australian hospitals, with an initial go-live done at Lyell McEwin Hospital and Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service.
In 2021, the company, which distributes the iQemo system exclusively in Australia and New Zealand, will won the competitive tender to deliver the end-to-end solution, which includes predefined regimens, prescribing, scheduling and dispensing, and administration and reporting of chemotherapy.
A rollout to regional hospitals and health centers is now underway. Implementation at major locations such as the Royal Adelaide and Flinders hospitals is planned for the first quarter of 2024.
Cubiko releases MyMedicare module
General practitioner information platform Cubiko has introduced a new module to support clinics in the implementation of MyMedicare.
MyMedicare is a voluntary patient registration model launched by the Australian government as part of wider efforts to strengthen the Medicare insurance system.
To help ‘formalize’ the connection between patients and their GPs, the free MyMedicare module on Cubiko allows practices to import CSV lists of registered patients directly from MyMedicare into the Health Professional Online Services, eliminating the administrative burden of manually registering patients in their clinic. It also provides actionable insights across different patient cohorts.
Additionally, the module, available on the Cubiko Assist Dashboard, features tools to help identify and enroll patients with upcoming appointments who are eligible but not yet registered for MyMedicare.