Digital Health
Health-e Together Digital Care: accessible, connected & efficient healthcare for our community
What is Digital Health?
Digital health is a critical element of the future of healthcare.
Digital Health offers the potential to support greater engagement, accessibility, quality, safety, efficiency, and sustainability of health systems around the world. With a focus on engaging and empowering patients, activating caregiver networks and understanding that patients are increasingly behaving as consumers of healthcare. Digital health provides us with a toolbox of technologies and techniques that support the development of new, innovative patient and caregiver-centred models of care.
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Health-e Together Digital Care Toolbox.
This change management toolbox offers healthcare providers a range of resources, tools and techniques to support the implementation of digital change at different levels of digital health readiness.
The toolbox will assist healthcare organisations to recognise how digital health technologies are applied in practice to achieve greater efficiency in healthcare delivery and better health outcomes for consumers.
Digital Care Survey.
The brief survey is an effective tool for healthcare services to identify gaps in their practice digital health readiness and be part of the change approach for future digital health initiatives. Participating in this survey helps healthcare practices determine their digital health readiness level and supports the planning for innovative digital health activities in the region.
Registrations are currently closed for Digital Maturity Assessments for all providers. If you would like to express your interest in participating in a digital maturity assessment, please contact the digital health team.
Latest digital health news
November 29 2023
Digital Health Assessment reveals solid foundations for improvements in digital maturity.
The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (HNECC PHN) has completed a comprehensive digital health maturity assessment for more than 300 health facilities revealing a higher score of digital maturity across the HNECC region in comparison to other PHN regions.
November 14 2023
SafeScript NSW’s new approval management functionality
SafeScript NSW’s new approval management functionality will mean that prescribers (medical, nurse and dental practitioners) will be able to apply online for approval to prescribe or supply certain Schedule 8 medicines (in some cases, be issued approvals in real time), monitor application progress, view patient approval (previously referred to as an authority) history, have visibility of the number of active approvals held and see all approvals held within their organisations.
November 14 2023
Patient registration for MyMedicare now open
Earlier this year, the Australian Government introduced MyMedicare – a voluntary new patient registration system that aims to formalise the relationship between patients, their general practice, general practitioner (GP) and primary care teams.
August 09 2023
New SafeScript NSW Enhancements
SafeScript NSW, the state’s real time prescription monitoring (RPTM) system, has implemented a range of new enhancements aimed at improving the overall user experience.
Digital Health Support in General Practice
The PHN’s Primary Care Improvement Team partner with general practices to build a better Australian primary health system.