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Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics

Health Populi

The hearts and minds of nurses are fertile and inspirational sources and engines for health care innovation. This past weekend, and for the second time, I had the privilege and opportunity to be a panelist for the perennial hackathon meet-up of Nurse Hack 4 Health , sponsored by Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Sonnier, and DevUp.

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Bonus Features – October 13, 2024 – 85% of clinicians waste at least an hour a day on admin tasks, 82% of healthcare organizations hit with a cyberattack experience a disruption to patient care, plus 20 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Another ASTP/ONC post found only 20% of HIE organizations are using HL7 FHIR APIs to send and receive data. A survey from VR training vendor UbiSim found 89% of nurses with access to VR training said it helped them better prepare for real-world scenarios in healthcare settings.

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Queensland begins telestroke pilot and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Based on a media release, doctors and nurses at Hervey Bay Hospital are being prepared for the Queensland Telestroke Service pilot happening in the coming weeks. The company partnered with InterSystems to adopt the IRIS for Health platform to offer interoperability based on FHIR standards.

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Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Updates that require support for FHIR-based APIs should allow TEFCA participants to more easily exchange information directly, and enable individuals to more easily access their own information. Acute virtual nursing vendor AvaSure appointed Paula Cobb as Vice President of Marketing. News ONC released Common Agreement 2.0.

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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Healthcare IT Today

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging. This is not only a financial investment, but also an attention investment.

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Bonus Features – November 3, 2024 – 95% of consumers want an easier way to pay medical bills, 90% of medical devices aren’t running anti-malware software, plus 35 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Products Inovalon announced several new and updated products , including Eligibility Verification Pro for patient insurance verification and Converged Outreach Connectors for sharing member data using FHIR APIs. launched two applications , Kio Staff Safe Alerts for incident response and Kio Nurse for monitoring equipment.

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AWS physician expert talks new use cases for telehealth, machine learning, cloud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth technology, such as virtual nurse assistants and chatbots, facilitate self-service pre-screenings, automate health-information sharing, and assist with diagnostics, freeing up provider time to focus on more patients. Transformation of healthcare data into FHIR format is a key process to enable interoperability.