Australia invests $20 million in new health AI project
The Australian government has awarded grants totaling nearly A$30 million (US$20 million) to 10 AI projects at leading universities to improve access to healthcare.
These include research at the University of Queensland trialing AI in conjunction with 3D total skin imaging for the early detection of melanoma, while another project at the University of Melbourne aims to establish AI-powered services to address young people’s mental health issues.
The grant is offered under the Medical Research Future Fund’s National Key Research Infrastructure Initiative.
Fake The Doctors app reported
Doctors Medical Centre, part of New Zealand primary care group Green Cross Health, The company flagged a mobile application that appeared to be posing as its official app.
On June 20, the service said it had received information about the existence of the fake app, after which its IT team took action, notifying the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre to blacklist the app and reporting it to Google to have it removed from the Play Store.
The Doctors app allows patients to make appointments, order recurring prescriptions, access medical records, receive timely health reminders, and much more.
The Doctors is advising users who have not yet migrated from the previous Manage My Health or Health 365 apps to the latest app to download The Doctors app directly from the company’s website.
New PenCS module supports aged care incentives
PenCS has introduced a new module on its Practice Cloud platform that supports care planning activities relevant to general practice in the Aged Care Incentive.
The federal scheme provides practice and provider incentives of A$430 (approximately US$290) per eligible patient each year.
PenCS’s MyMedicare – Aged Care Incentive module allows healthcare organizations to identify eligible patients, auto-generate reminder and recall lists, visualize billed and unbilled MBS items, see potential revenue opportunities for eligible patient cohorts, and understand patient lists based on various parameters such as age and hospitalization risk.
The introduction of this new module comes as PenCS adds new dashboards and reports, including actionable patient lists, to Practice Cloud.
