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.
Interoperability 2
Healthcare professionals gather to discuss all things OpenEHR
OpenEHR day, held in London on 28 October, offered an introduction to the specification and its potential for facilitating interoperability in healthcare.
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Narrow HSSF ‘risks locking buyers into inflexible and expensive solutions’
Robert Tysall-Blay, chief executive of WellSky, said industry leaders feared Lot 1 of the framework was “too narrow and focussed on certain suppliers”.
Clinical Software
Best-of-breed and Big Box approaches to provider digital maturity
Ade Byrne, CIO at Southampton University Hospital, shares his thoughts on best of breed (BoB) integrators,ahead of hosting a dedicated event on 23 October.
Health CIO
Industry co-chair of IHE-England talks standards
IHE is an initiative which promotes the use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 in order have better communications between systems.
Interoperability
‘Late and incomplete’ definitions from NHS stifling interoperability
David Hancock said interoperability is “nowhere near” where it needed to be, highlighting “late and incomplete” standards definitions from the NHS.
Interoperability 2
INTEROPen turns to members for funding as NHS Digital pulls back
INTEROPen said independence from central bodies would put it in a stronger position to solve the interoperability priorities of the NHS and social care.
Interoperability 1
Connecting Care has more MIG users ‘than any other interoperability programme’
In May there were 37,500 user views in the MIG, which gives staff from 24 health and care organisations access to records, end of life care plans and other clinical documentation.
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Tech companies renew pledge to support interoperability in health
The likes of Google, Amazon and IBM have all said that “too often” patient data is “inconsistently formatted, incomplete, unavailable, or missing”.
Interoperability