Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Hospital heads in Taiwan and South Korea share tips on enabling data exchange and dealing with vendors for data integration.

APAC digital health leaders have emphasised the importance of collaboration and innovation to accelerate digital transformation in healthcare.

The aim is to bolster more consistent use of the HL7 interoperability standard across HHS, says the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, and help "break down the silos separating patients, providers, payers, public health and research."

This comes as the government outlined a four-year national medical AI research and development roadmap.

Also, the University of Mumbai has embarked on an AI project focused on diagnosing women's diseases.

Also, the Department of Health and Aged Care seeks to automate the creation of monthly care statements in residential aged care homes.

Also, more local health districts are set to roll out NSW Health's e-referral management system and digital referral forms.

It will underpin the interoperable connection between My Health Record and aged care digital care management systems.

The qualified health information network says athenahealth, ModuleMD and Solace Health have gone live on its TEFCA platform, which features Carequality access, new security capabilities and more streamlined workflows.

Epic is applauding the move, and says it expects that all of its clients nationwide will be live on the exchange framework by the end of next year, via its Epic Nexus qualified health information network.