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The Australian Institute Of Digital Health Is Moving To Raise Its Profile – Will It Matter?
This appeared last week: Opinion: Advancing artificial intelligence in healthcare in Australia 21 March 2024 By Mark Nevin The rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is increasing the urgency to ensure Australia ’s digital health community is equipped to lead the adoption of AI in a safe, responsible and effective way. This AI revolution is already impacting (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

It Seems They Are Still Looking For Something Useful To Do With The myHR.
This appeared last week: Moving toward a more connected aged health system with My Health Record By Sean McKeown 14 March 2024 By using My Health Record, care providers can gain access to health information that aims to improve continuity of care across the spectrum, from aged care nurses to GPs. The Aged Care Registration Project, coordinated by the Australian Digital Health Agency, offers (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

I Think There Is An Important Message Here About The Application Of AI
This appeared last week: John Halamka on the risks and benefits of clinical LLMs At HIMSS24, the president of Mayo Clinic Platform offered some tough truths about the challenges of deploying genAI – touting its enormous potential while spotlighting patient-safety dangers to guard against in provider settings. By Mike Miliard March 13, 2024 11:13 AM (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

I Suspect We Are Only At The Beginning Of The Changes That Are Coming With AI.
This appeared last week: New AI tools can record your medical appointment or draft a message from your doctor By CARLA K. JOHNSON Updated 1:43 AM GMT+11, March 14, 2024 Don ’t be surprised if your doctors start writing you overly friendly messages. They could be getting some help from artificial intelligence. New AI tools are helping doctors communicate with their patients, some by (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 20, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

I Find This A Rather Compelling Case For Not Being A TikTok User And Encouraging Others To Be The Same!
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

AusHealthIT Poll Number 738 – Results – 17 March, 2024.
Here are the results of the recent poll. Is The Proportion Of The Overall Number Of GP Consults Presently Being Undertaken Via Telehealth About Right? Yes                                         (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

It Seems This Has Become A Complex Public Health Emergency Under Our Very Noses.
This appeared last week and frankly reveals a public health disaster …. The vape ban has utterly failed. What now? Vaping rates have exploded, organised crime controls the trade, and Australia stands on the brink of a public health disaster. Is it time we followed New Zealand ’s lead? By Natasha Robinson March 15, 2024 Australia stands on the brink of a public health disaster. The failure to (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

This Seems Like A Real “Boots-and All” Trial Of Microsoft Copilot.
I noticed this a few days ago: 06 Mar 2024 10:16 am AEDT APS Tests Generative AI for Government Use Safety DTA Canberra, Australia - Over 50 Australian Public Service (APS) agencies have commenced a 6-month trial of Copilot for Microsoft 365. Participating agencies are trialling new ways to enhance productivity and develop skills, capabilities, and preparedness for generative artificial (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

I Am Not Sure How To Put This Criticism Nicely But Really Something Needs To Be Said.
This appeared last week: My Health Record: Enhancing Aged Care Practice About the event Are you an Aged Care Nurse interested in exploring more about how My Health Record can help you in caring for your patients? Or are you currently using My Health Record and would like to share your experiences around how you are utilising the My Health Record system (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

This Seems To Me To Be A Pretty Good Announcement – I Hope It Is True!
 This appeared last week: NBN set to become five times faster ‘at no extra cost’ By David Swan March 5, 2024 — 8.51am Broadband speeds are set to skyrocket for some 9 million Australians, with NBN Co launching a proposal to make its most popular plan five times faster at no extra cost amid an explosion in demand for data. In a move the company says i s to meet unprecedented usage of (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

A Useful Summary Of The Players In The OZ HealthTech Space.
 This, really useful, summary article appeared last week: 06 March 2024 Our top 30 most valuable healthtech companies By Jeremy Knibbs Investing in the sector feels like a mug ’s game post-ZIRP and covid but some groups are defying negative sentiment. A few ground rules to keep in mind should you decide to have a go at reading this. I did a version of this a few years back – Our 11 (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Is This Exaggerated Hype Or Should All We Humans be Worried?
This rather alarming article appeared last week. AI is a threat to human dominance For the first time, humans will have to deal with another highly intelligent species – and preserving our autonomy should be humanity’s chief objective. Edoardo Campanella Mar 8, 2024 – 5.00am The so-called gorilla problem haunts the field of artificial intelligence. Around ten million years ago, the ancestors (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

AusHealthIT Poll Number 737 – Results – 10 March, 2024.
Here are the results of the recent poll. Will Having Healthcare Providers Automatically Share Data With The myHR See Improved Patient Usage Of The Government Patient Record? Yes                                    & (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

This Is A Useful Look At AI In Healthcare From The US.
This appeared last week: Explainer: Thinking through the safe use of AI Mayo Clinic's Dr. Sonya Makhni answers key questions on creating and delivering artificial intelligence, inherent bias and the importance of risk classification systems. By Andrea Fox February 26, 2024 03:03 PM CMS is concerned that biased AI could exacerbate discrimination, and says algorithms alone cannot be used as a (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Would Australia Be Better Off If We All Just Stopped Using Facebook?
This appeared last week: ‘Not the Australian way’: Anthony Albanese blasts Meta By Sophie Elsworth Media Writer And James Madden Media Editor 3:37PM March 1, 2024 Anthony Albanese has blasted tech giant Meta’s abandoning of deals to pay for the news content it uses and says action will be taken, as he labelled the ow ner of Facebook’s moves as “unfair” and “not the Australian way”. Meta released (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs