Special Report: Interoperability
2020 has seen the digital health landscape rapidly change in a matter of months, so what has this meant for interoperability in healthcare? Jennifer Trueland investigates.
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Scotland’s contact-tracing app now interoperable with Northern Ireland’s
Through developing its own ‘federated server’ the Scottish government is ultimately hoping to allow interoperability of all contact-tracing apps in the UK.
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Solving interoperability is not ‘a technical problem, it’s a social problem’
Solving interoperability is not “a technical problem, it’s a social problem”, the co-chair of INTEROPen, David Hancockk, has told Digital Health News.
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US passes interoperability rules giving patients more data control
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has passed two rules that will help patients have more control over their health data.
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Medway Community Healthcare pens agreement with Servelec for Rio EPR
Integrated care provider MCH is already in the process of implementing the Servelec Rio electronic patient record, which will go live later this year.
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Interoperability to be hotly debated at Digital Health Rewired 2020
With interoperability soaring high on the health IT agenda, Digital Health Rewired will have a whole track dedicated to the well-debated topic in March.
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Key suppliers of electronic medical records ‘need to be more interoperable’
Researchers at the Institute of Global Health Innovation found most NHS trust were using three key suppliers: Cerner, DXC Technology and System C.
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Digital Healthcare Council outlines four principles for a sustainable industry
Digital health solutions should consider people first; fair system rules; free and open information; and evidence-based practice, the council said.
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Special Report: Interoperability
Jennifer Trueland investigates whether FHIR and similar standards have finally become fully embedded in healthcare IT.
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