By Kate Quirke in Digital Health CONNECT Magazine New Zealand healthcare professionals are paged an average of 3.5 times per hour and spend seven percent of their workday responding to those notifications. Pager communication often lacks standardisation, content consistency, or an indication of urgency – creating a challenge for clinicians…

For there to be a meaningful shift, companies need to take deliberate action to advance women in their organisations by improving recruitment, culture and career development opportunities. Kate Quirke is the Managing Director of Australian health informatics company Alcidion. She is the only female CEO in the 46 companies that…

By Nick White, Brian Dorricott, Paul Deffley and Vivek Krishnan 75% of healthcare executives rank data interoperability as the highest or one of the highest priorities for their organisation, according to industry leaders in a 2022 Google Cloud and Fierce Healthcare survey.  Interoperability has been a persistent challenge due to…

Junior doctors are saving hours on shifts, safety has been enhanced, and nurses can easily see when clinicians will respond to deteriorating patients, following a clinical communications project at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Omer Ali, internal medicine trainee and clinical informatics fellow, tells the story. For a…