Medtech provides assistance to rural Victoria’s medical professionals.
Regional Victoria is now included in the University of Melbourne’s acceleration program, which helps doctors and hospital partners launch early-stage enterprises.
Regional health network Bendigo Health will cooperate with the program’s 12-month delivery timeframe. It aspires to include local healthcare experts in developing their ideas into medical technology solutions that are advantageous to patients and providers.
According to a press release, the effort will let doctors connect with a community of innovators, engineers, and producers to collaborate on the creation of cutting-edge medical technology solutions, especially those that enable remote patient monitoring and care at home.
The $260,000 collaboration is supported by the Victorian Government through the Australian Medtech Manufacturing Center.
Gisborne’s pharmacy operations will be managed by RxOne from HealthSoft.
Horouta Pharmacy is enhancing the delivery of healthcare services in the remote East Coast or Gisborne region by utilizing the RxOne pharmacy platform from HealthSoft.
Te Whatu Pra Tairawhiti recently granted a contract for the delivery of East Coast rural pharmacy services to the Gisborne-based pharmacy. It plans to increase its digital connections, improve pharmaceutical distribution through a number of distant depots, and improve patient assistance for patients in remote locations.
The purpose of this tender, according to Horouta Pharmacy co-owner Kevin Pewhairangi, is to “achieve more health equity and health outcomes for rural Mori.”
He said, “We are pleased to work with HealthSoft to extend their RxOne pharmacy platform and leverage their significant expertise in digital health to better connect and help our whnau.