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Digital from the start: New medical campus to rise in Singapore's east

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. "For example, during a tele-consult, doctors can verbally ask if the patients are keeping up with their rehab[ilitation] exercises.

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$15M Singapore-London partnership to help stem APAC's growing healthcare cybersecurity woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

THE LARGER CONTEXT More and more medical devices are getting hooked up to hospital and home networks and the Internet. In Singapore's public health facilities, for example, about 15% or over 16,000 medical devices have Internet connectivity.

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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What does the end of the public health emergency mean for the future of the healthcare industry?

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

All organizations, including those in critical infrastructure industries such as healthcare, need to consider a three-pronged approach to protecting sensitive data: monitoring user behavior, looking at content accessed by users, and applying additional controls to the most highly targeted users—for example, those with privileged access.

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Nurses: The Force for Change

Mobile Health Matters

Traditionally, the nurses’ role was limited in the hospital. Now, however, nurses are active participants in multiple sectors including technology, pharmaceuticals, education, law (as malpractice consultants), government and public health.

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#TweetRegret?

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My next move should have been to listen, learn from him, affirm his position and then (perhaps – if he was in a position to learn from me ) offer my perspective so that we could think together about how we might solve public health problems. I’m a bit ashamed that I said what I said.

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