While revising policy and regulatory frameworks is indeed crucial to enable and promote the transition to a value-based care model, there is another important factor to consider. Dr Tamara Sunbul, medical director of clinical informatics at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare in Saudi Arabia, demonstrated at HIMSS24 APAC what a successful value-based population health programme looks like.
Developing smart hospitals has been a way for South Korea to meet the growing demand for more personalised healthcare in their fast-ageing society. At the helm of this effort is the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), an agency under the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Its principal researcher, Jong Yeob Kim, shared how they
Privacy, systems interoperability, and lack of research capability are some of the biggest challenges in utilising big data for national precision medicine projects in advanced health systems in Asia. Health leaders from Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore exchanged insights into harnessing big data for personalised medicine in the panel session, “Nationwide Initiatives in Healthcare Transformation – The Power
A new nationwide survey report has highlighted a significant number of general practitioners in Australia rarely or not using the national digital health record system. 31% out of 3,000 polled in the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) annual GP survey said they rarely or never use My Health Record. The survey was conducted
In a world where consumers can order dog food, schedule a haircut or buy a plane ticket with just a few keystrokes, patients often are left wondering why healthcare has to be so complicated – and why so many processes seem stuck in the past. Today, as consumers grow more dependent on convenient and efficient
There are more than 14,004 unique IP addresses that expose healthcare devices and systems containing sensitive medical data to the public internet, according to a Censys report. The study noted many more devices may be at risk but are not easily detectable. Nearly half of these exposed IP addresses (6,884) are in the United States
Microsoft announced Thursday that it is unveiling several artificial intelligence enhancements in Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare innovations, including new healthcare AI models in Azure AI Studio, new healthcare data capabilities in Microsoft Fabric and developer tools in Copilot Studio. Many of the artificial intelligence enhancements are available by preview. Executives from the company also provided
In a letter to Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald this past week, Epic requested a pre-motion conference in support of its anticipated motion to dismiss Particle Health Inc. v. Epic Systems Corporation, a lawsuit Particle Health filed in the Southern District of New York last month. WHY IT MATTERS The October 15 letter to the court detailed what legal
The Singaporean Ministry of Health is investing SG$200 million ($150 million) over the next five years to further implement new AI technologies across the island-nation state’s health system. This new infusion to the MOH Health Innovation Fund supports the development and testbedding of technological innovations, including AI, making a “centralised push to scale them up
Health to head to Parliament for MHR sharing law Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler plans to introduce next month November a piece of legislation that will mandate the default sharing of medical images to My Health Record (MHR). Earlier in May, Minister Butler floated this requirement, which was one of the recommendations of the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce. While there