OCHIN partners with rural hospitals on connected care
Portland, Oregon-based OCHIN announced its entrance into acute care this week with a full-service inpatient electronic health record system that supports interdisciplinary care plans and clinical care...
View ArticleSingapore developing digital platform for mental health care integration,...
Singapore's Ministry of Health Office for Healthcare Transformation is building a digital platform that will help facilitate the integration of mental health support services provided by more than 450...
View ArticleGetting the basics of digitalisation down with webPAS
The patient administration system is one of the most critical foundational digital systems for individual hospitals or broader hospital jurisdictions. It is also the foundation for the ongoing...
View ArticleRegenstrief and SNOMED announce new LOINC and SNOMED CT interoperability
Regenstrief Institute, developer of the LOINC standard, and SNOMED International this week announced their new effort toward enabling wider healthcare data exchange: the LOINC Ontology.WHY IT MATTERS...
View ArticleInnovation trends require education for users to keep up
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View ArticleNational data integration requires consolidated systems
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View ArticlePatient preferences for accessing medical data are shifting, says ONC
To track the use of web-based patient portals and smartphone applications by patients seeking their health information, the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an analysis of...
View ArticleTracking surgical instruments with AI: A new approach to patient safety
Medical errors can have devastating consequences for patients, and one of the most alarming errors is the retention of surgical items in a patient’s body after surgery. Retained surgical items (RSIs)...
View ArticleWhy consent is a key part of the health equity equation
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View ArticlePreparing for the evolving malware threat landscape
The incidence of malware attacks is rising, with healthcare being the biggest target for bad actors. While the FBI made headlines earlier this year for taking down Qakbot, a major malware network, the...
View ArticleNextGen interoperability tool vulnerable to RCE attack
MITRE entered CVE-2023-43208 into the catalog of vulnerability exploits on Thursday and the National Institute of Standards and Technology says the flaw, which impacts certain versions of NextGen...
View ArticleNew information blocking rules from HHS could cost noncompliant providers...
Healthcare providers who engage in information blocking could be on the hook for significant financial penalties, if proposed rules published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this...
View ArticleVA launches $1M AI tech challenge to address clinician burnout
As part of continuing efforts to reduce burnout among healthcare workers, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is hosting a 120-day Tech Sprint to develop ambient dictation for clinical encounters,...
View ArticleLeveraging FHIR to upgrade population healthcare delivery
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View ArticleWhat it takes to drive innovation in India's medical device sector
Collaboration among stakeholders in India could be the key to promoting further the development of quality, high-end medical devices that can pinpoint and address patient needs and offer...
View ArticleInterSystems lends integration support to Indonesia's SatuSehat
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View ArticleProvidence implements FHIR to support value-based care
Providence Health System says it is the first health system in the country to use the Clinical Data Exchange specs developed by HL7's Da Vinci Project to build a FHIR-based data-as-a-service...
View ArticleAccelerating medical device manufacturing through simulation
An estimated two million different types of medical devices are in the global market today, according to the World Health Organization.1 From pacemakers to continuous glucose monitors, healthcare...
View ArticleONC tests the link between low interoperability and social deprivation
Small and rural hospitals treating economically and socially disadvantaged groups are less likely to exchange health data, a recent study from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT shows...
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