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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 The CARe-MED study, which has received A$1.4

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Digital Diabetes Management in the Hot Seat

Digital Health Wire

Digital diabetes management tools found themselves in the hot seat after a blistering study from the Peterson Health Technology Institute suggested that several leading solutions don’t provide significant clinical benefit, especially relative to their cost.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In this new normal, digitally frictionless scheduling of imaging studies by patients in the right location for them, at the right time in their care, with the ability to electronically share those images with those they wish, is but one example," he continued.

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Will Oracle save the day with its EHR database?

David Chou

It's difficult for physicians to know about their patients when treated at other hospitals. It also makes it challenging for research teams at public health agencies to conduct studies on big groups of people, since they're frequently restricted to the patient data available within their hospital network, he added.

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5 Ways to Close the Cloud Security Gaps in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by TJ Houske, Senior Vice President of Technology, Operations, and Engineering at OTAVA Ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations doubled in the last five years, according to a new study by JAMA Health Forum. The most common victims have been health clinics.

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“It’s 2018, and We Still Have No Idea If Mobile Healthcare Apps Work”

mHealth Insight

Meanwhile, the mHealth Economics 2017 study states that major app stores feature around 325,000 unique health apps. “Non-studied apps: good, bad, or evil? “ NHS-accredited apps is a library for apps that have been developed and studied for the healthcare system. Evaluations.

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Remote Cardiac Monitoring: The Debate Begins

LinkousThink

The authors of the study, based at Yale University, reported that this service had no impact on the health of the patients when compared with a control group. But we may see a considerable amount of unwarranted conclusions and unfair criticism of remote cardiac monitoring, of telemedicine and even of the study itself.