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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The regional health service, which has been using Orion Health's Digital Care Record (DCR) since 2003, is in need of a modern solution to tackle challenges posed by the recent global pandemic and the onslaught of natural disasters that have strained its system.

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IHE PDQm and MHD - FHIR conformance resources

Healthcare Exchange Standards

An IHE Profile is a standard that takes a Use-Case and creates an Interoperability solution. Thus, they are historically in IHE from 2003 (14 years ago). FHIR conformance resources are available to carry programatically the constraints that historically IHE has written narratively into an IHE Profile. Thus PDQm exists.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

Today, the Wall Street Journal featured an in-depth article on the poor air quality in Pittsburgh, one of the key influences on human health that can be at least as bad for a population as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day — with subsequent negative health and financial impacts on the individual and community.