As the primary provider of inpatient behavioral health services in the Central Alabama region, Baptist Health is depended upon by its community at large to provide high-quality and continuous care without interruption. THE PROBLEM Staff have been working to resolve two separate but interrelated issues surrounding this imperative service line. “The first issue we needed

A S$20 million grant from the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) has been awarded to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Imperial College London to develop ways to better protect health data and wearable devices. Imperial’s newly opened overseas research centre, Imperial Global: Singapore, is collaborating with NTU Singapore researchers on the IN-CYPHER programme “to tackle

Banner Health, based in Phoenix, is one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S., serving more than eight million patients across six states in the Southwest. Like many hospitals and health systems, it has been facing many challenges with behavioral health. THE PROBLEM Behavioral health is an interesting story for several reasons, said

HealthLink, a major health IT organisation in Australia, has acquired the health messaging and eReferrals business of ASX-listed Telstra Health.  “Both Telstra Health and HealthLink are ensuring a smooth transition for customers with no disruption to services or support. A transition plan is in place and customers are being contacted,” the companies assured customers following

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is asking for feedback on its draft United States Core Data for Interoperability, Version 5. It’s also looking for examples of code sets used by health IT developers and implementers to communicate data, the agency said. ONC, which is accepting comments until April 15, is targeting

To address rural healthcare access disparities, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an independent entity of the National Institutes of Health, seeks to create a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. WHY IT MATTERS Rural populations are subject to higher rates of heart disease, cancer, trauma, lung disease

Nuance Communications, part of Microsoft, announced the general availability of Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot for documentation assistance in Epic electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to free clinicians from administrative tasks and increase clinical efficiencies. After months of collaboration, Nuance’s DAX Copilot is available for full Epic EHR

The Regional Cancer Centre in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram has reportedly received $7 million in funding to put up a robotic surgery facility, which is a first in a public hospital in India. Inaugurated this week, the robotic surgery unit was established through the Rebuild Kerala Initiative. The same programme is helping set up a similar facility

The Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) of Singapore has upgraded the EMR system used by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Medical Corps after nearly a decade. It has also implemented a new document management solution.  MINDEF/SAF’s Patient Care Enhancement System (PACES) 3 system allows soldiers to access information on their medical history, as well as manage

As part of a growing body of standards for healthcare, the ability for providers to access and understand the social determinants of the health of their patients to raise and achieve equity requires enough steps that the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT created an SDOH toolkit for communities. ONC says it built the