Staff at Arkansas’ Harmony Park Family Medicine have been excited about streamlining the prior authorization process with the goal of improving patient access to high-quality care. THE PROBLEM Prior authorization approval and management historically has been a burdensome process in the industry and can cause unnecessary delays in patient care, in large part due to
Consortium to advocate for safe AI, genomics use A consortium pushing for the safe use of advanced analytics for enhanced genetic disease diagnosis will be established with the assistance of federal government funding. The Centre for Population Genomics, a joint initiative between the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, has received an A$8
Bangkok Hospital to open $5M robotic surgery centre Bangkok Hospital, one of Thailand’s largest private healthcare providers, is set to build a $5 million robotic surgery centre. Based on a press release, the facility will have multiple operating rooms outfitted with robotic platforms such as the da Vinci Xi Surgical System from the United States. The
Technology is a key catalyst in the drive to transform healthcare. Improving patient experiences and outcomes, reducing risks and enhancing medical training and patient education are just a few of the contributions of cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality. Effectively harnessing technology advancements in healthcare must, however, address the real needs
The Australian government will pilot a network for sharing information on cyber threats in the healthcare sector. It has recently set aside A$6.4 million ($4.2 million) to launch an Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (ISAC) for the Australian healthcare system. WHY IT MATTERS In Australia, the ISAC has long been operating in the banking and
The Australian Digital Health Agency has released a five-year roadmap for raising the uptake of national healthcare identifiers in Australia. Developed with the Department of Health and Aged Care and Services Australia, the National Healthcare Identifiers Roadmap 2023-2028 outlines specific actions to take for the broad adoption of healthcare identifiers, which are unique numbers used
In a trend that shows no sign of slowing, hospitals and health systems are affiliating, acquiring and merging more than ever before. With those sprawling new entities come lots of challenges combining and streamlining their constituent parts. Especially data – and lots of it. The integration of data assets after a merger or acquisition is
Amid a national reckoning with racism spurred by the COVID-19 death rate among Black Americans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s standards for pulse oximeters – those all-too-common devices that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood – “essentially ignored how skin tone can affect a pulse ox reading,” according to the Johns
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. The second version of ONC’s Health Data, Technology
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Wednesday published its long-awaited Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability proposed rule for public comment. WHY IT MATTERS The HTI-2 proposed rule is designed to further advance interoperability and boost nationwide information sharing among patients, providers, payers