Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s briefing finds that AI could be used to combat vaccine hesitancy and a report that a provider of PACs system has partnered with an AI developer.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s briefing features the latest cohort of the West Yorkshire Digital Ambassador Programme and the Emory Empathic AI for Health Institute.
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Belfast trust green-lights digital tagging system for tracking patient records
The UK’s largest integrated Health and Social Care Trust is introducing an RFID tracking system to make it easier to keep tabs on patient records.
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A third of US hospitals now have EHRs
US publishes ‘meaningful use’ criteria
The first draft criteria for the federal funding of electronic health records as part of the US’ recovery plans have been published. The eagerly awaited initial eligibility criteria were published at the end of December by The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator. They are set out in a 700-page plan […]
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EHRs deliver soft benefits for hard cash
Electronic health record and e-prescribing systems deliver benefits such as safer and more convenient services, but only over long periods of time and with a net increase in spending, a major European study has concluded.
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EuroRec profiles EHRs for clinical trial
Electronic records certification body EuroRec has released a profile spelling out the key functionality required for an electronic health records (EHR) to be considered a reliable source of data within clinical trials. EuroRec says the publication of the EHR profile will help promote the use of high quality electronic health records in Europe. The new […]
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HIMSS singing
With former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on its speaker rota, this year’s HIMSS conference was always going to be about money. Neil Versel reports from Chicago.
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US-wide EHRs priced at $150 billion
The full implementation of a digital US healthcare system, with integrated networked electronic health records (EHR) in all US doctors’ offices and hospitals, has been estimated as costing around €97 billion ($150 billion) over eight years. The figure was suggested by Robert Miller, a professor of health economics at the University of California, San Francisco, […]
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Europe aims for interoperable EHRs by 2015
The European Commission has published new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records across the continent by the middle of the next decade. At the heart of the recommendation is the premise that the basic components needed to support cross-border interoperability also apply to the local, regional and […]
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