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Queensland Virtual Hospital to offer emergency care and more briefs

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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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More Hospitals Achieving Interoperability Goals

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New research from the ONC has found that a meaningful percentage of hospitals are engaged in data sharing, with a growing number making patient health information available from outside sources. Though the data goes back a couple of years, it’s still a worthwhile look at where data sharing trends are among hospitals.

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HIMSSCast: A pro checks in on the status of the health IT stock market

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Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course. Those are three huge electronic health records companies. Is there something about health IT that lends itself to companies being private? Has momentum shifted to companies more on the digital health front vs. EHRs? What is the market looking at now?

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How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes

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With 185 hospitals, it takes effort for HCA to maintain good quality health data across their entire organization. It means carefully mapping the data that is collected in its warehouses so that it is accurate, normalized, and semantically interoperable (the ability for computer systems to exchange data with unambiguous meaning).

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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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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

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We won’t see accelerated adoption of interoperability standards (e.g., 2024 will see prioritized investment in technology solutions that get providers and payers on the same page – interoperable, shared data views that encourage more collaboration and partnership – as a means to a better end: a more sustainable healthcare system.

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Bonus Features – May 26, 2024 – Only 43% of hospitals routinely exchange data, about 70% of organizations want to change archiving vendors, plus 24 more stories

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News and Studies The National Institutes of Health’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) launched the Universal Patching and Remediation for Autonomous Defense (UPGRADE) program with $50 million in funding to develop tools for hospital IT teams to enhance cybersecurity measures and combat ransomware.

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