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New Zealand’s health minister announces a 10-year investment plan to convert the 65% of hospitals that use paper records to digital systems.
The plan calls for a single national digital medical records system,…
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New Zealand’s health minister announces a 10-year investment plan to convert the 65% of hospitals that use paper records to digital systems.
The plan calls for a single national digital medical records system,…
Kickoff speaker Dr. Benoit Desjardins looks at how AI is increasing cybersecurity risk. The HIMSS AI and Cybersecurity Virtual Forum on Tuesday, November 18, represents the next step in AI progression, from excitement after…
Continue ReadingWhat happens when an EHR company decides to automate everything and not just documentation? At Greenway’s Engage 2025 user conference, AI was more than a feature. It became the central pillar of the company’s…
Continue ReadingShawn Fichter, CEO and Head of Product at Legacy Data Access, believes that archived clinical, financial, and operational data represents an untapped resource for health systems. However, access to legacy data must be done…
Continue Reading(L to R) Gurnak Dosanjh, deputy chief clinical information officer and integrated care board (ICB) clinical lead at NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, Ayesha Rahim, clinical lead for digital mental health, Transformation Directorate at…
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The Vatican convenes a Rome conference this week titled “AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity,” where a church official warned of the risk of “transforming health and illness into mere numerical data…
Continue ReadingAccording to research by enGen, a healthtech company that serves payers and providers with automated solutions, they found that each error in member enrollment data costs an average of $172 in fixes and downstream problems….
Continue ReadingThousands of NHS job cuts will go ahead in England after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the health service to overspend this year to cover the cost of redundancies.
The government…
James Freed, deputy director of the NHS Digital Academy, speaking at BMJ Future Health (Credit: Jordan Sollof)
Healthcare staff are quitting the sector because of a lack of digital literacy skills which leads them…
Continue ReadingDoctors’ leaders have voted in favour of GP practices refusing to comply with the requirement to make online consultation tools available throughout core hours.
Changes to the GP contract, which came into effect on 1…