The project building New Zealand’s national health information platform has been put on hold following budget cuts for digital health. In a statement to Healthcare IT News, Michael Dreyer, director of the Digital Channels sector at Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand), confirmed that the Hira project has been suspended. “After completing the first stage
A passwordless login experience has replaced long passwords and SMS codes to access digital devices at a regional non-profit that supports unpaid carers in the Australian Capital Territory. This comes on top of ongoing privacy and security enhancements at Carers ACT, part of the broader non-profit Carer Gateway in Australia. The organisation provides a range
A recent Gartner survey found the majority of customers are “AI shy”: 64% say they’d rather companies not incorporate AI into the customer experience. Customers also were concerned about AI and incorrect information (42%), data security (34%) and bias/inequality (25%). Ethical AI can help organizations create innovative, trustworthy user experiences – protecting brands and allowing
HITRUST this week unveiled its new AI Risk Management Assessment, which it bills as a comprehensive assessment approach for mitigating the risks of artificial intelligence deployments, in healthcare and other organizations. WHY IT MATTERS The assessment is meant to help ensure that organizations have adequate governance in place for implementing AI tools, and that those
Artificial intelligence is seeing a massive amount of interest in healthcare, with scores of hospitals and health systems already have deployed the technology – more often than not on the administrative side – to great success. But success with AI in the healthcare setting – especially on the clinical side – can’t happen without addressing
Northwestern Medicine announced this past week that it has embedded Nuance’s Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot in its Epic electronic health record, and will implement the ambient voice tool enterprise-wide. WHY IT MATTERS DAX Copilot, deployed via Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, is designed to help Northwestern Medicine clinicians document their conversations with patients while reducing the
Carequality – the decade-old interoperability initiative whose information exchange framework comprises more than 45 networks linking more than 50,000 outpatient clinics and 4,200 hospitals – announced this past Friday that it will “thoughtfully align” with the federal-led Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA. WHY IT MATTERS Carequality was founded in 2014 – launched
Community health centres, or puskesmas, in the Indonesian province of West Java, south of capital Jakarta, will leverage generative AI to augment their capabilities to address critical health issues. The Sumedang regency recently tied up with Singaporean doctors’ networking platform Docquity to develop and launch the genAI-powered virtual assistant called TehAI. HOW IT WORKS TehAI reportedly has
Hospital network Alfred Health in Victoria has onboarded and digitised the health records of their cancer patients to Oracle’s EHR solution for oncology. WHY IT MATTERS Alfred Health finds significant value in Oracle Oncology in helping streamline pharmacy processes, with order information pushed directly from the EHR into the pharmacy management system. It also generates
The National Healthcare Group, the health cluster covering central and north Singapore, seeks to integrate an AI assistant into its radiology workflow. According to a media release, the group will be deploying South Korea-based Lunit’s AI solution for chest X-ray analysis in its primary care diagnostic radiology systems. The Lunit INSIGHT CXR will be piloted for