Medical care
Alternative labels
Medical policy
Medical research
Medicine
Report
Results of Australia’s health panel survey on recommendations and regulation of smartphone apps for health and wellness
This survey report found that consumers want support in finding accurate, effective smartphone apps for health and wellness, and they should be subject to an authoritative regulatory system that rates them for efficacy.
Journal article
How to improve success of technology projects in health and social care
This article summarises a new framework to improve the success of technology projects: the nonadoption, abandonment, scaleup, spread and sustainability (NASSS) framework.
Journal article
Increasing the use of research in population health policies and programs: a rapid review
This article finds that the level of evidence for the effectiveness of strategies to improve the use of research in policy making is low, and there remains a need for well-designed empirical studies that evaluate interventions.
Report
Future of health
This report provides a vision and plan for how Australia can shift focus away from illness treatment and towards the management of health and wellbeing.
Conference paper
Animated instructions for medicines: who can assess the quality and effects?
Providing patients with information about their medicines is an essential part of a therapy. This paper discusses six perspectives for the design of information for patients.