Healthcare

Living in an increasingly global society presents both opportunities and challenges with healthcare issues such as epidemics being an example that Australia is not exempt from.

Highly experienced physician and clinical safety expert Dr John Wakefield has been appointed as the director-general of Queensland Health, following the recent retirement of Michael Walsh after four years in the position.

The New Zealand Government has launched a Cancer Action Plan that includes establishing a new agency to make better cancer treatment more accessible for the public.

Doctors are a major part of the health system and play a key role in delivering high-value healthcare.

National Disability Insurance Agency chief executive Robert De Luca has suddenly resigned with immediate effect, leaving it up to the next federal government to appoint

Technology can provide the opportunity to significantly alter the way we deliver healthcare to meet economic and demographic challenges.

Challenged by digital transformation, public sector decision makers are snared between shrinking budgets and citizen expectations that government services will be as engaging and convenient as the likes of Gmail, Dropbox and Facebook.

Betters ways to receive early warning of health deterioration before a transfer to intensive care occurs are urgently needed. Good technology in other wards goes a long way to meeting that challenge.

Good healthcare technology advances diagnosis and treatments. The best solutions deliver holistic efficiency, faster insight and accuracy that maximises both benefits and finite funds.

Integrated care is a global phenomenon across developed and developing countries seeking to make health and care systems both co-ordinated and person-centred. 

Peter Shergold is leading a new review of the online service that allows tens of thousands of health professionals to quickly look up Medicare numbers, and is apparently being abused. The ministers say it must be “both convenient and utterly secure” — quite a high standard.

The Productivity Commission has handed down its draft report recommending major reforms to six separate kinds of human services, starting from the point that service users mostly know what’s good for themselves. It all hinges on how well governments play their stewardship role.

Tim Kelsey, the new CEO of the Australian Digital Health Agency, is a high-profile hire with a track record of using the power of information and technology to drive better healthcare outcomes in the UK.