ANZ news
Health fund members of Australian insurance firms Medibank, Bupa, nib, and GU Health can now add their health insurance membership cards to the Apple Wallet and make contactless claims at any HICAPS terminals in Australia.
This comes as the National Australia Bank, which operates the Health Industry Claims and Payments Service, has enabled healthcare practitioners who are using its system to...
Queensland-based digital health firm Cardihab and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, a medical research organisation in Melbourne, have signed a five-year agreement to jointly conduct clinical trials and cohort studies to deliver evidence of the effectiveness of digital approaches to cardiovascular disease management, rehabilitation, prevention and treatment.
The research programme will see wide...
Sydney-based Omniscient Neurotechnology has received the US FDA's 510(k) clearance for its brain mapping software.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Quicktome is a digital brain mapping platform that provides clinicians with a visualisation of a patient's brain networks which are responsible for complex functions such as language, movement and cognition.
Featuring intuitive browser interfaces, the platform...
Media intelligence platform AdClarity has tracked the digital advertising expenditure of the Australian federal and state governments on COVID-19-related messaging.
A news report citing the AdClarity research noted that collectively, they spent more than A$14.9 million ($10.9 million) on COVID-19-related digital ads from the start of the pandemic in March 2020 to June 2021.
About 92% of their...
Today, Melbourne-headquartered Telstra Health, the digital health arm of Telstra Corporation, announced that it has entered into a deal to buy a majority stake in PowerHealth, a healthcare software solutions provider based in Adelaide.
A news report noted that the deal is for about A$150 million ($110.7 million).
Established in 1995, PowerHealth specialises in billing, costing and revenue...
Sydney-headquartered telehealth platform Eucalyptus has recently bagged A$30 million ($22.4 million) in a Series B funding round led by NewView Capital, the Silicon Valley-based investor that also backs digital health firms 23andMe and Hims & Hers. The investing round also saw participation from previous investors Blackbird Ventures and W23, as well as new investor AirTree Ventures.
WHAT IT...
Nanosonics, an Australia-headquartered medical technology company in the infection control space, has launched a digital product with the aim of helping infection preventionists and quality managers improve and standardise infection control compliance.
The Nanosonics AuditPro's first application will be in the ultrasound market, with the product being expected to rollout in the US this month....
Australia seeks developer of digital health app with COVID-19 vaccination pass
The Australian government has started looking for a developer for its smartphone app project that will store COVID-19 vaccination certificates and test results.
Based on a recently issued tender request by the Australian Digital Health Agency, the digital health app must connect to the government's My Health Record...
Australian radiology software developer Kestral and New Zealand-based digital healthcare solutions provider Aceso Health, together with Sorsix Technologies, have signed a multi-year collaboration deal for platform integration.
WHY IT MATTERS
The companies will collaborate to combine Kestral's Karisma Radiology Information System (RIS) with Aceso's Snapscan Patient Online Booking System which runs...
Australia-listed Advanced Human Imaging has entered into a binding agreement with Singaporean health tech company Nexus-Vita for the integration of its smartphone-based health screening platform with the latter's upcoming health app. The deal is for a consideration of $500,000.
WHAT IT DOES
Nexus-Vita is developing an application that allows users to manage and keep their health data, such as...
