FHIR API for HealthOne, Nice set of numbers for MyHR

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HealthOne adds FHIR API to speed up data exchange

A FHIR application programming interface has been added to the South Island's HealthOne shared record system to enable it to connect to GP practice management systems and speed up the data exchange process. The system, which allows GPs, pharmacists, community nurses and hospital clinicians to access key healthcare information ... [read more]

Blog: Nice set of numbers for MyHR

It doesn't really reach the heights of Paul Keating's inimitable description of the 1989 national accounts as a “beautiful set of numbers”, but the federal government would be more than pleased with the headline figure of three per cent as the opt-out rate of the My Health Record so far. Considering the relentless negative ... [read more]

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International health IT week in review: September 23

Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending September 23: Fitbit targets virtual care, UK PMS vendor commits to FHIR, APIs and shared data standards, axe the fax movement, Apple Watch 4 review, EMR burnout, Canadian snoop, Telus and Babylon, cloud precision medicine ... [read more]

eHealth NSW plans IaaS pilot at Westmead Hospital redevelopment

eHealth NSW plans to trial offering a Health Grade Enterprise Network on an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) basis as part of the $1 billion Westmead precinct redevelopment in western Sydney. The project includes the construction of a 14-storey central acute services building, a $95 million refurbishment of The Children’s Hospital ... [read more]

InterRAI acute care system promises to slash nursing paperwork

Brisbane’s QEII Jubilee Hospital has successfully trialed a new acute care assessment system developed by Finnish firm RAIsoft in association with the University of Queensland that promises to reduce the time nurses need to take when doing risk assessments on elderly patients on admission from up to two hours to 15 minutes ... [read more]

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Defence to tender for health knowledge management platform in 2019

The Department of Defence expects to go to tender for its long-awaited health knowledge management (HKM) platform for the Australian Defence Force in early 2019, phase four of the billion-dollar JP2060 Deployable Health Capability project. Defence says the aim of JP2060 Phase 4 is to deliver an HKM solution to provide ... [read more]

System support sought for secure transfer of patients from ED to urgent care

Waitemata District Health Board has issued a request for ideas on an IT platform that can help with the secure transfer of low acuity patients from emergency departments to an alternative urgent care clinic. The DHB has been running a pilot program to show that patients can be successfully redirected to a UCC and is now looking ... [read more]

St John of God partners with Telstra Health for Doctor Connect app

Perth-headquartered St John of God Health Care has rolled out a mobile app to give its specialist doctors access to real-time patient information, with 500 clinicians taking it up so far. The Doctor Connect app, developed by Telstra Health in association with specialists, connects to hospital patient administration systems ... [read more]

Opt-out rate for My Health Record just over three per cent: ADHA

Approximately 900,000 people or around three per cent of those eligible for a My Health Record have opted out of the system since July 16, a figure that is in line with expectations, the Australian Digital Health Agency says. However, while awareness of the system and people's ability to opt out has grown in that period, a Senate ... [read more]

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