31-Mar-16 Thousands of chronically ill patients in Australia will receive tailored health services under a trial the government intends to roll out nationally. About 65,000 people would be part of the first trials of the package, which involved up to 200 medical practices. [image: Daniel Munoz / The Sydney Morning Herald]

21-Mar-16 The company rolling out the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has released a research paper on e-health, spruiking the benefits of monitoring health and telehealth with doctors. 50% of respondents use telehealth for its convenience; 34% for better managing their health; and 21% in place of going to a doctor when they are unable to get an appointment. [image: NBN]

16-Mar-16 From 2010/11 to 2014/15, public hospital admissions increased by 3.2% annually in Australia, but 4.0% for private hospitals. 6 mn people were admitted to public hospitals in 2014/15 and 4.2 mn to private facilities. 57% of admissions did not involve surgery. The majority of surgical admissions (60%) occurred in private hospitals. [image: Finder]

02-Mar-16 A study of over 2,000 parents in Australia found 61% used websites, blogs and online forums to source health information for their kids in the last six months. This was despite only 6% reporting they trusted the advice "a lot". [image: ABC: Sophie Kesteven]

18-Feb-16 Australia's Telstra will continue to invest in its Telstra Health division to allow it to grow in scale, capability and reputation, Telstra said as it released its half-year financial results, which showed net profit USD2.1 bn. Activities in the half included acquiring Health IQ, which supplies patient flow software, and community care software firm EOS Technologies. [image: Pulse + IT]