Melbourne researchers are trialling a digital program in Victoria’s specialist mental health services. The project, the Self-Management and Recovery Technology (SMART) research program, aims to empower people with serious mental illness to advance their recovery by self-managing. The online resource has ...
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Tech consultation breakdowns hurt funding
Shortfalls in the consultation between patient advocates and government on healthcare tech funding must be improved, researchers from the University of Adelaide have argued. Dr Jackie Street, senior lecturer in public health said patient organisations are not being effectively engaged, ...
More »Bandage in works detects pressure ulcers
Researchers from the US are developing a new type of bandage that uses electrical currents to detect early tissue damage from pressure ulcers before the human eye can. “What we're detecting is a change in the way electricity flows that ...
More »Telephones don’t define telenursing
The controversy over this long-standing practice comes from mistaking the tools for the context. Ever since the telephone connected rural hospitals with the community, rural people have been calling their local nurses seeking care – and the nurses have been ...
More »More legal adventures in social media
Recent cases in this rapidly evolving realm involve nursing, bullying, privacy, defamation and employment. This article follows two previous ones concerning bullying and the use of social media within the nursing profession; both of which generated great interest. Workplace bullying ...
More »Don’t just get used to devices, develop your own
Nurses need to prepare continually for emerging technologies and more nurses should be developing new information systems and devices. This is the key point Dr Ian McGrath, senior lecturer at RMIT University, raised speaking with Nursing Review in the lead ...
More »Anne Wilson on what to look for when it comes to online learning
Online learning is absolutely essential in a fast-paced world, according to an academic and registered nurse and midwife, but she added it's important to choose the right elearning. "It’s about the type of program that you’re looking at [and] the ...
More »Data points to opportunities
Senior consultant Dr Kerryn Butler-Henderson tells Amie Larter why health information fields need more nurses. The number of nurses specialising in health informatics and health information management roles is still small. Even so, according to Dr Kerryn Butler-Henderson, senior consultant health ...
More »Teamed up for telehealth
A collaboration is set to direct $2.5 million to improve remote access to healthcare. Just under one-third of Australians, 29 per cent, live in regional and rural areas, an Australian Bureau of Statistics study completed in June 2013 states. Of ...
More »Health and home
Virtual wards aim to reduce hospital readmissions; take a closer look at approaches in Australia and the UK. In the UK, virtual wards in the home are already in use. They have been employed with varying degrees of success. Now ...
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