In 2010, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital made digital health history by being the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve Stage 7 for the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.  Over a decade later, the hospital still holds on to the validation – acing its fourth evaluation for the model in December

Atrium Health’s approach to fall prevention used to be inadequate, and was not properly protecting its hospital patients’ safety. THE PROBLEM The health system’s previous falls prevention technology lacked the discreteness required to obtain specific patient data unit details. While Atrium staff had access to raw numbers, the information was not discerned enough to allow

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced on Monday that the two interoperability alliances have crossed the finish line and are now onboarded as Qualified Health Information Networks capable of nationwide health data exchange with other QHINs under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement. WHY IT MATTERSCommonWell Health Alliance, which comprises

Ahead of the upcoming election of the 18th Lok Sabha (lower house of India’s bicameral parliamentary), Nirmala Sitharaman, union minister of Finance, announced the government’s interim 2024-2025 budget. India plans to spend a provisional sum of Rs 90,171 crore ($10.8 billion) for healthcare in the coming fiscal year, increasing from Rs 79,221 crore ($9.5 billion)

SA Health and the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH) recently announced the first go-live of the South Australia Statewide Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) Program. Introduced in 2021, the PRM Program encourages patients to report on their health outcomes and experiences, which clinicians can tap into to make better decisions on their patients’ health.

Telstra has bagged the A$1.6 million ($1 million) contract to deliver comprehensive connectivity upgrades across Peninsula Health, a major public health service in Victoria. According to a media release, the organisation is seeking to replace its existing IT systems across 13 hospital and healthcare sites with “smarter, safer and more resilient technology, CISCO SDWAN, [and]

160 million Americans live in regions with mental health professional shortages. Many of these areas are rural, where driving to the nearest treatment option is unrealistic due to distance, or personal and professional obligations. Cost and access also are barriers to care, with a predicted shortage of 21,000 adult psychiatrists by 2030 making matters worse.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality, Safety & Oversight Group sent a memo to state survey agency directors, effective immediately, clarifying HIPAA compliance for texting patient information and hospital orders at critical access hospitals. WHY IT MATTERS Texting guidance CMS released to hospitals in 2018 indicated that while texting patient information had become

Over the last decade, healthcare – and more specifically, primary care – has been at an inflection point. As the industry continues to transform with the evolution of digital records, alternative payment models, and challenges of staffing and burnout, primary care practices have faced specific challenges keeping up with these demands. As a result, the

This year, healthcare data experts will also begin to take on a new role as artificial intelligence trainers, contends Matt Hollingsworth, cofounder and chief innovation officer at Carta Healthcare, a healthcare AI systems company. “Although the adoption of AI in healthcare is nothing new, there will continue to be a growing need for AI technology