The Health Resources and Services Administration is beginning to use HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources-based application programming interfaces to streamline reporting processes and enhance data quality. Since April 2024, HRSA has received Uniform Data System reports with de-identified patient-level submissions from health centers representing 2.2 million patients in proof-of-concept FHIR exchange testing, HRSA and the
Telstra, NTT contracted for major ICT upgrade in NSW health facilities eHealth NSW disclosed that telecommunications companies Telstra and NTT were tapped to upgrade the wired and wireless networking infrastructure of more than 1,100 public health facilities across New South Wales. Hospitals and community health centres will “progressively undergo a refresh of local networking hardware
In the constantly evolving healthcare landscape, the integration of artificial intelligence technology holds immense promise for transforming nursing practice. With AI becoming increasingly prevalent, nurses stand at the forefront, ready to leverage its potential to drive positive patient outcomes and streamline clinical workflows, said Anna E. Schoenbaum, DNP, RN, vice president of applications and digital
Google Cloud and the Indonesian Ministry of Health are exploring the application of generative AI to the national health record platform SatuSehat. Recently, the organisations tied up to collaborate in the development of generative AI-based applications in healthcare. Putri Alam, Google Indonesia’s director of Government Relations and Public Policy, revealed in a recent Google event in
(Editor’s Note: This is part two of two of this interview. To read part one, click here.) Dr. Bruce Darrow, chief medical information officer and interim chief digital and information officer at New York’s Mount Sinai Health System offered some thoughts this week about why artificial intelligence is having such a big moment in healthcare
Color Health, a genetic testing company, is using OpenAI’s newest, less expensive, large language model to equip doctors with pretreatment workup expertise that could speed up prior authorization requests for cancer screening diagnostics and get patients into treatment faster. The company has also partnered with the University of California San Francisco to study how the
Te Whatu Ora extends medicine database contract with Telstra Health Te Whatu Ora has extended its longstanding contract with Telstra Health for its Clinical Content managed services. Before they were consolidated under Te Whatu Ora in 2022, former District Health Boards in New Zealand used Clinical Content, which includes access to Micromedex, AusDI, and DRTC. Telstra
Healthcare organizations are paying much more attention to cybersecurity in recent months, especially after Change Healthcare experienced a ransomware attack that debilitated its systems and disrupted claims payments nationwide, and as Ascension has been digging out from its own cyber event for weeks. Clearly, for organizations large and small, the cybersecurity learning curve remains challenging – even as
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded the second option period for its electronic health record modernization contract with Oracle Health. It’s an 11-month extension, “with an emphasis on improved fiscal and performance accountability,” according to the VA. WHY IT MATTERS The agency says it is keenly focused on making the new extension count
Access to healthcare services is critical to good health, yet rural residents often encounter barriers to healthcare that limit their ability to obtain the care they need. Similarly, providers serving in rural areas also face unique challenges. Consider that about 20% of Americans live in rural areas, but barely one-tenth of physicians practice there –