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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

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National study gets federal grant to evaluate medication charting model involving EMRs A new federal government-funded project will involve pharmacists to validate a medication charting and deprescribing model in hospitals using EMRs. The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

One of hospital IT’s traditional concerns – hospital data stored in a vendor’s data center – can be a source of relief in a ransomware attack. Vendors should be ready to assist with data extracts when a hospital comes calling and hospital IT should leverage these relationships.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates. However, EHR macros must accurately capture the patient’s condition on the day of the encounter.

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Sheri Rawlings, CIO, San Juan Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

When Sheri Rawlings started as CIO at San Juan Regional more than 4 years ago, the EHR picture in the physician community was dire. It’s not just the EMR, but the delivery mechanism such as VMware or Citrix, along with the combination of some kind of a single sign-on. Bold Statements. Overall, I don’t think it’s gone badly.

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Hospitals Switching IT Plans Rapidly As COVID-19 Impact Grows

Healthcare IT Today

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, hospitals are struggling valiantly to keep up with the influx of infected patients. Hospital IT departments, meanwhile, are undergoing stresses of their own as they work to support the rapidly escalating needs of clinicians.

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Latest from the Tech Tonics Podcast: Griffin Weber: Bringing Clinical Sense & Sensibility to Healthcare Data

Digital Health

Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to pragmatically improve the health and the care of patients.