Altera's ANZ head promoted to APAC VP

Todd Haebich, head of Australia and New Zealand at Altera Digital Health, is taking on a new role as the company's EVP for Asia-Pacific.

He first joined the company, then Allscripts, in 2015 as an associate VP for Strategic Accounts in ANZ before becoming the general manager in 2018.

His responsibilities now include the Southeast Asian market where he has lived from 2008 to 2014 and held senior positions with leading healthcare IT companies like Wolters Kluwer and Carestream Health.

"I am delighted and honoured to be leading Altera Digital Health in the Southeast Asia Market where I intend to build on all of the good work that has already been delivered to establish Altera Digital Health as a market leader," Haebich said about his promotion.

$1M grant awarded to evaluate Orygen's digital mental health platform

A University of Melbourne professor has received almost A$1.5 million ($1 million) in grant funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council to evaluate the effectiveness of a digital mental health platform.

Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science, who co-led the development of Orygen's Moderated Online Social Therapy (MOST), will be evaluating the technology's impact and cost-effectiveness.

Rolled out to 75 youth mental health services since 2020, MOST provides young Australians aged 12 to 25 with resources and access to mental health professionals through a safe and moderated online network. 

NSW's PROM portals go multi-lingual

The Health Outcomes and Patient Experience (HOPE) patient and carer portals have been made available in nine languages other than English.

Developed by eHealth NSW, the said platform allows patients and their carers to share feedback on personal health outcomes and experiences of care, which are then collected in real-time and used as patient-reported measures.

Based on a media release, HOPE is now accessible in Greek, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese. An Arabic translation of both patient and carer portals is also planned for release later this year.