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Also, Australia's aged care research centre has received additional funding to deploy AI.

Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor at Indiana University's school of public health, will helm the IT and data innovations at Regenstrief Data Services.

Virtual reality holds huge potential, says Adam Hutchinson, founder and CEO of oVRcome, which recently ran a trial of its self-guided tool for social anxiety. He discusses the goal of closing the gap in access to VR treatment for providers and patients.

This follows an audit report that flagged its "partly effective" management of its contract outsourcing the operation of the digital health record system.

Why are the two often so disconnected? And what role can technology play in integrating them? A new CMS accountable care program aims to drive progress, and one expert explains what it means for providers.

This is part of an ongoing project to replace paper-based chemotherapy prescribing across South Australia.

According to Svava María Atladóttir, chief transformation officer at Iceland's Landspítali National University Hospital, clinical and IT staff are actively collaborating to improve its in-house EHR and clinical portal.

Through its partnership with DispatchHealth, MedStar Health is now providing care in patient homes after hospital stays and emergency visits, or through virtual healthcare referrals.

Eric Liederman, chief executive officer of CyberSolutionsMD, says developing an "all of us approach" on what to do and how to do it can help even advanced organizations protect healthcare delivery when ransomware hits or affects a nearby hospital.

Jonathan Bauer, CIO at Atlantic General Hospital Health System, says when Change Healthcare was attacked and Atlantic couldn't bill for a month, it helped bring the need for a robust cybersecurity system front of mind to board members.