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Despite a roll-call of demonstrated benefits from #AIscribing in healthcare, concerns persist among some clinicians around accuracy and hallucinated content as well as ethical, privacy and data safety concerns. Seeking to unpack these concerns is Quantum Clinical Care director Nishan Silva, who is presenting at the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) Institute of Digital Health’s AI.Care conference in Melbourne later this month. #ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT

When it comes to generating accurate ICU discharge summaries, not all large language models (#LLMs) are the same, according to new research. A study conducted by the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at University Hospital Galway, along with the School of Computer Science at the University of Galway, investigated the ability of #ChatGPT, #GPT-4 API and #Llama2 to generate accurate and concise ICU discharge summaries. ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT

Fantastic story on how Auckland PHO ProCare has developed five #roboticprocessautomation (RPA)-based digital assistants that are integrated with general practice inboxes to relieve administrative burdens for general practices. ProCare says that between 2017 and 2021, there was an 81 per cent increase in clinical inbox volume, with laboratory and radiology results and patient portal messages contributing to the administrative workload for GPs. #RPA can help out. #ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT Pinnacle Midlands Health Network indici NZ

Western NSW Primary Health Network is taking part in a new Healthdirect Australia pilot of an enhanced after hours general practitioner (AHGP) support service for aged care facilities. 50 residential aged care homes (RACH) in the Far West and Western NSW regions are included in the pilot, which is available for use by registered and enrolled nurses in participating RACHs using a new dedicated phone number for RACH use only. #ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT #telehealth

Online appointment booking and directory service Healthengine has partnered with Blooms The Chemist to streamline patient appointment management nationwide. Blooms The Chemist has now integrated Healthengine’s patient appointment management system (PAMS) across its 119 stores to improve the efficiency of scheduling health services. #ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT

Registering as a new patient at a medical centre will be one of the test cases for the Australian government’s proposed Trust Exchange (TEx) digital identity and credentialing initiative. First announced in August by Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten, the concept of the national Trust Exchange is to allow individuals to use a credential token stored in their myGov account to verify their identity. #ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT

Melbourne’s Northern Health has built a new patient registration portal for its Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED), including a user-friendly interface for patients and a dashboard for clerical staff to register patients into the iPM patient administration system and the FirstNet emergency department EMR. The portal, nicknamed ‘Reggie’, has been developed and built internally by Northern Health’s digital health team to match the workflows of VVED, saving staff time and enabling a faster registration process. #ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT

Private health insurer Medibank says its new partnership with Canadian healthcare customer experience platform developer League will enable better, more personalised healthcare journeys for customers using the My Medibank app. League's data and AI-driven technology platform will be embedded directly within Medibank's digital capabilities, including the My Medibank app. #ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT

Peninsula Health has gone live with the region’s first end-to-end oncology solution, rolling out the Charm Evolution oncology information management system from Magentus. Peninsula Health, which covers the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula region of Victoria, has implemented Charm in its cancer care facilities at Frankston and Rosebud hospitals. #ehealth #healthit #digitalhealth #PulseIT