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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team studied nearly 250,000 hospital discharges in patients with diabetes from 2005 to 2011. "Shared EHRs and HIE are only tools to increase information availability; their impact is dependent on the clinical workflow and delivery system context in which they are used," they wrote. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

The first phase is focused on the maternal healthcare domain, and the main objectives are to: Complete an Implementation Science/Research Project to present the impact of a Health Information Exchange (HIE) on the maternal healthcare delivery system in Rwanda. "Everyone is involved nowadays; it is part of the medical practice.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. This XDS solution was and is still the best solution for business-to-business. Thus it targeted use of HTTP RESTful, using JSON encoding.

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