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Queensland Virtual Hospital to offer emergency care and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Meanwhile, an adjacent service, the Queensland Telestroke Service , will be integrated into the Queensland Virtual Hospital at the end of the year. MED connects EMR via cloud Telemedicine service My Emergency Doctor can now provide systems interoperability to enable hospitals to conduct virtual board rounds.

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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

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s beautiful that PCPs can be informed in order to coordinate the care for their patients.

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

Health System CIO

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. But for the majority of us who are community type hospitals, it really didn’t do anything except give us some extra funding and get our paper records electronic. Bold Statements.

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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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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

Preparation ahead of the mandatory deadline is crucial for success and ACOs with multiple EMRs will face unique challenges. The movement towards healthcare consumerism and implementation of new legislation, such as the Hospital Price Transparency rule, has brought previously unavailable transparency into healthcare costs.