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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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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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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.

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Latest from the Tech Tonics Podcast: Griffin Weber: Bringing Clinical Sense & Sensibility to Healthcare Data

Digital Health

Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to pragmatically improve the health and the care of 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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Power of People. Pause and Trust. Lynne Becker

Society for Participatory Medicine

Lynne Becker: First, your observation about the EMR, the electronic medical records system, is correct. What’s even more insulting is that the school and the hospital were part of the CDC Heads Up program. They took her to urgent care, not to the children’s hospital. Electronic records, ICD codes, and Zebroids.

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