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Project to launch Vietnam's first AI virtual hospital announced

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

An Australian biotechnology company is building what could be the first AI-driven hospital in Vietnam. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The MedArmor AI Hospital will pursue a preventive healthcare model, emphasising early disease detection and timely interventions. It also offers a health screening tool powered by medical imaging AI.

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Monash's clinical AI collab with India's Apollo Hospitals and more briefs

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Monash to tap Apollo Hospitals DB for clinical AI projects Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology has tied up with one of India's biggest hospital groups, Apollo Hospitals, to test and validate clinical AI. An initial $34 million ($22 million) was invested in ARIIA during its founding in 2021.

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EMR implementation as a 'science'

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Demonstrating benefits The panel also discussed challenges and best practices in hospital and health data integration and sharing. "I could go to a hospital in central London… and [go] down the street to a private hospital. "Patients [are] the mediators of health information exchange."

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Thailand’s Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi clinches HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi from Thailand has been validated for Stage 7 of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. The EMRAM measures the clinical outcomes, patient engagement, and clinician use of EMR technology in a hospital or health facility.

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In 2025, look for more digital-first patient engagement and data-driven decisions

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Hospitals and health systems have been discussing digital-first patient engagement for a while now, but fewer organizations than you might think have made huge strides forward on that front. You cite digital-first patient engagement as a major issue for hospitals and health systems in 2025.

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Joint Commission's new voluntary certification helps hospitals ensure 'responsible' use of patient data

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Joint Commission is launching a voluntary certification program for hospitals and critical access hospitals to demonstrate their responsible use of patient’s health data for non-clinical purpos | The accreditation giant wants its Responsible Use of Health Data Certification program to serve as an objective evaluation of whether a hospital is following (..)

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Latest digital hospital in Thailand taps Ascom for clinical comms

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Ascom has been chosen to provide its clinical communications and collaboration solutions to a new medical facility run by the Chulabhorn Hospital in Thailand. The new hospital started operating its emergency department on 9 January. The new hospital started operating its emergency department on 9 January.

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Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic disease

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Alexandra Hospital has taken part in the launch of a new cloud-based digital health service in Singapore by telecommunications provider StarHub, together with its partners, health technology company ConnectedLife and Fitbit. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Srisawan Hospital pursues further digitalisation through partnerships with GE Healthcare, InterSystems

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Srisawan Hospital, a private tertiary healthcare provider in Thailand, is stepping up on its digitalisation efforts to further raise its quality of care provision and hospital experience. It also partnered with InterSystems for the installation of the TrakCare unified hospital information system at its upcoming Bangkok branch.

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The future of technology can make your hospital a model of care and efficiency

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Increase staff and operational efficiency Real-time location solutions (RTLS) and cloud-based systems support various productivity and efficiency goals in hospitals and medical practices.

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Thammasat University Hospital taps NEC Thailand to digitise elderly care

Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center.

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The Light Collective amplifies its call for patient data rights

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

designed to help ensure that patient concerns about health data aggregation are given the stage. WHY IT MATTERS Large corporations and social media platforms continue to aggregate patient data and profit from it, the collective says. " THE LARGER TREND For patients, trust and safety go hand in hand with clarity.

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Improving Patient Engagement Through EHR-Driven Communication Tools

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

These technologies allow patients to access their health data, communicate with providers, and participate actively in managing their health. In a more specific case, a large urban hospital in Boston saw a 40% improvement in medication adherence when patients used EHR-based communication tools.

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Korea to link health records of 8 million patients to MyHealthway

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The South Korean government seeks to streamline access to the personal health records of over eight million patients held in tertiary general hospitals in a single platform by next year. WHAT IT'S ABOUT My Healthway allows Koreans to view their medical records in a standardised format from various hospitals.

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How Catholic Medical Center achieved personalised care with big data, AI

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In-Young Choi, professor and head of the Catholic Information Convergence Institute at CMC, shared their journey in the session, " Personalised care with hospital big data and digital health technology." Aside from facilitating big data analysis, the nuCDW, which hosts 1.7

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Transforming Trials into Triumphs: How RPM is Changing the Cancer Care Journey

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MARCH 10, 2025

Traditionally, this meant frequent, sometimes exhausting, trips to the clinic or hospital. Think of it as a virtual extension of your oncology team, utilizing smart devices like wearable sensors, connected scales, and user-friendly apps to collect and transmit vital health data.

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IT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hospitals and health systems are grappling with "ongoing labor shortages, increased workplace violence and many other burdens impacting the safety and wellbeing of pandemic-weary healthcare workers," said Collins.

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Chatbots and related automation can ease staffing shortages, triage patients

Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

For example, many hospitals and health systems use automation to ease the burden of staffing shortages and effectively manage and triage patients at scale. It asks questions about their health status and care progression and can also capture biometric readings from devices.

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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

Healthcare It News

JUNE 24, 2024

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings.

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Increasing applications of robotic surgical systems across Asia and more briefs

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JUNE 7, 2024

Amrita Hospital introduces robotic gait trainer for rehab Amrita Hospital in Kerala's Kochi city has started adopting a robotic gait trainer system to assist in the rehabilitation of brain and spinal injury survivors. It also trains patients to walk longer and become less dependent.

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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2022

In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, keeping the best outcomes for patients at the center of all activity increasingly depends on the smart use of medical data. Failure to adhere to guidelines can increase the risk of complications, drive up costs, and lengthen hospital stays [5]. Roles in healthcare are changing.

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National Healthcare Group eyes digital records for community care

Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2024

Through the portal, NHG partners can also access and leverage insights from anonymised population health data to design tailored community-based programmes. Tan Tock Seng Hospital then rolled out the system the following year, becoming the first hospital in the cluster to go live with the integrated EMR system.

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Health Data Privacy: Majority of Patients Demand Accountability, Transparency

HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new examination of patient perspectives on health data privacy illustrates unresolved tension over the eroding security and confidentiality of personal health information in a wired society and economy. This concern is magnified with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. .

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Diabetes WA reports hack and more briefs

Healthcare It News

APRIL 5, 2024

SA endoscopic hospital digitises patient pathway Northern and Southern Endoscopy, South Australia's first standalone endoscopic day hospital, has recently digitised its patient pathways with Personify Care. The hospital had dealt with huge preadmission calls and relied heavily on paper forms for triage and manual risk screening.

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Nurses have a deep distrust of AI – but transparency and training could help

Healthcare It News

APRIL 30, 2024

"Nurses are all for tech that enhances our skills and the patient care experience, but what we are witnessing in our hospitals is the degradation and devaluation of our nursing practice through the use of these untested technologies," she said.

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ONC drafts Federal Health IT Plan for 2024-2030, calls for public comment

Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

Emphasis is placed on providing improved patient access to EHI across communities and improve education on patient-facing health IT capabilities, particularly through mobile devices, along with outreach efforts on the use of AI in healthcare. ” Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Top takeaways from HIMSS22: What CIOs need to know

Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2022

Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI. Salesforce has announced that it will improve its Salesforce Customer 360 for Health product, adding new features.

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Health Gorilla Launches Patient Access Solution Enabling Access to Health Data from Health Information Networks

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Accessing comprehensive data seamlessly from national exchanges has traditionally been limited to specific use-cases, such as treatment. Patient Access is now available as an out-of-the-box software platform and FHIR-based API for custom applications.

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Majority of teen patient portals accessed by guardians, raising privacy concerns

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The team used an algorithm to examine outbound messages sent from patient portal accounts of patients aged 13 to 18 years old at three institutions (with which the team members are affiliated): Stanford Children’s Health, Rady Children’s Hospital and Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

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South Australia starts 24/7 remote rural health monitoring

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The kit also comes with a digital tablet where they can upload their health data via a secure website. Those data are then reviewed by a specialist nurse who can also speak to them about their next steps via live video link at any time of the day, seven days a week.

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AHA says OCR's online tracking tool rules need to go

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of online tracking tools is at odds with existing HIPAA rules and could cause meaningful harm to patients and public health.

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Singapore's iHiS taps Google Cloud, Accenture to drive healthcare innovation

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The system, launched by iHiS and SingHealth, is currently being tested at the SingHealth Tower and Outram Community Hospital over the past five months.

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Western Australia pursuing healthcare generative AI and more briefs

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The data will then be used to identify trends and improve research and education about women’s health, according to a media release. "This is an area of health that is so neglected and is still really stigmatised.

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5 Factors to Consider When Developing a Health Data Platform

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For example, it could give them greater control over their data security and architecture or they feel they know their data best and can better manage it internally. Whatever the reason, if a startup is looking to develop its own health data platform, there are five factors they must always consider. Interoperability.

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Patientory Launches Blockchain App Enabling Patients to Earn Money for Their Health Data

HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2023

Patientory is a consumer-facing mobile dApp putting patients in control of the data they create but previously a challenge to control being confined to patient portals. Even though patients want a better system, the problem is that hospitals and clinicians keep recording patient information in siloed medical data systems.

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Most Americans clearly recognize the potential benefits that improved health IT can offer, and they want this transformation of the health care system to continue,” the Pew Charitable Trusts research concludes in Most Americans Want to Share and Access More Digital Health Data. As with other aspects of U.S.

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Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

It will use the health information taken from regular monitoring to promote clinical decisions and actions that will improve patient well-being and outcomes. In addition, the project will form a new digital health workforce by training doctors, nurses and allied health professionals in both hospital and primary care.

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ONC says stakeholders can 'pick up and run' with new regs

Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2024

Touted as the product of 10 years of work, the most recent proposed rule issued July 10 by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will usher in an age of automation for healthcare interoperability through application programming interface-based exchange capabilities, officials said on Wednesday.

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Samsung Medical Center tops global health systems in HIMSS Digital Health Indicator

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Launched in 2020, the DHI measures a health organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: governance and workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and person-enabled health. The hospital scored 365/400 for the DHI. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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HIMSSCast: New analytics strategies for patient-centric pop health

Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2024

The shift toward value-based reimbursement demands that hospitals and health systems take a more thoughtful approach to population health management. That requires the development of robust analytics strategies to track care quality and help patients manage their chronic conditions.

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Sicker Consumers Are More Willing to Share Health Data

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

This and other insights about the patient journey are published in Inside the patient journey , a report from Deloitte that assesses three key touch points for consumer health engagement. These three patient journey milestones are searching for care, using new channels of care, and tracking and sharing health data, Deloitte maps.

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HHS finalizes 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategy

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The federal government also emphasized the policy and technology components necessary to support the diverse data needs of all health IT users, noting that the 2024-2030 strategy supports the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency and Information Sharing final rule, known as HTI-1.

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HIMSSCast: Whole person care and data interoperability drivers

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Social determinants of health – the food, shelter and security attributes of patients that exist outside of care settings – contribute disproportionate risks for disease, hospital readmissions and a lack of access to quality healthcare among vulnerable populations, including people on Medicare.

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Going beyond SDOH to reduce readmissions

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 15, 2023

There is a lot of emphasis on how social determinants of health data – strongly linked to patient outcomes – are used in real-world healthcare scenarios with many researchers focusing on a lack of standardization and the roadblocks it presents to health equity. The agency found that 83% of U.S. million vs. $2.0

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Project to launch Vietnam's first AI virtual hospital announced

Monash's clinical AI collab with India's Apollo Hospitals and more briefs

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EMR implementation as a 'science'

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Thailand’s Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi clinches HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7

In 2025, look for more digital-first patient engagement and data-driven decisions

Joint Commission's new voluntary certification helps hospitals ensure 'responsible' use of patient data

Latest digital hospital in Thailand taps Ascom for clinical comms

Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic disease

Srisawan Hospital pursues further digitalisation through partnerships with GE Healthcare, InterSystems

The future of technology can make your hospital a model of care and efficiency

Thammasat University Hospital taps NEC Thailand to digitise elderly care

The Light Collective amplifies its call for patient data rights

Improving Patient Engagement Through EHR-Driven Communication Tools

Korea to link health records of 8 million patients to MyHealthway

How Catholic Medical Center achieved personalised care with big data, AI

Transforming Trials into Triumphs: How RPM is Changing the Cancer Care Journey

IT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022

Chatbots and related automation can ease staffing shortages, triage patients

OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

Increasing applications of robotic surgical systems across Asia and more briefs

Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

National Healthcare Group eyes digital records for community care

Health Data Privacy: Majority of Patients Demand Accountability, Transparency

Diabetes WA reports hack and more briefs

Nurses have a deep distrust of AI – but transparency and training could help

ONC drafts Federal Health IT Plan for 2024-2030, calls for public comment

Top takeaways from HIMSS22: What CIOs need to know

Health Gorilla Launches Patient Access Solution Enabling Access to Health Data from Health Information Networks

Majority of teen patient portals accessed by guardians, raising privacy concerns

South Australia starts 24/7 remote rural health monitoring

AHA says OCR's online tracking tool rules need to go

Singapore's iHiS taps Google Cloud, Accenture to drive healthcare innovation

Western Australia pursuing healthcare generative AI and more briefs

5 Factors to Consider When Developing a Health Data Platform

Patientory Launches Blockchain App Enabling Patients to Earn Money for Their Health Data

Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

ONC says stakeholders can 'pick up and run' with new regs

Samsung Medical Center tops global health systems in HIMSS Digital Health Indicator

HIMSSCast: New analytics strategies for patient-centric pop health

Sicker Consumers Are More Willing to Share Health Data

HHS finalizes 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategy

HIMSSCast: Whole person care and data interoperability drivers

Going beyond SDOH to reduce readmissions

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