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More than 60% of Abu Dhabi hospitals now digitally connected

The majority of Abu Dhabi’s hospitals are now digitally connected, it has been announced. This comes just over a year on from the implementation of the UAE’s first Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform, Malaffi, where more than 60% of hospitals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital are now part of the platform. Translating into […]

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Implementation best practices: Making interoperability work

Interoperability in health IT is tricky, to say the least. It requires complex technologies, robust standards and solid strategies. The government and the industry are working on interoperability solutions. On the industry front, healthcare organizations are focused on using technology to improve interoperability of existing services and capabilities, according to a new Proskauer survey of […]

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Why home healthcare workers need access to hospital EHRs

Major gaps in communication exist between hospital and home health care (HHC) clinicians, which could lead to potentially deadly medical errors, a University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus study found. WHY IT MATTERS The study that concluded providing electronic health record access for HHC clinicians would be a promising solution to improve the quality of […]

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Health Sciences South Carolina lights up a FHIR-based clinical data repository

While the FHIR specification continues gaining momentum, early success stories are happening among hospitals around the country.  Health Sciences South Carolina, for instance, built a FHIR-based clinical data repository infrastructure to create an inter-institutional culture of collaboration for learning from clinical practice, and empowering action through access to data while advancing evidence. "Our goal was […]