The keyword of any project must be interoperability: technological, organisational and clinical.
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In UK the continuity of care hospital-general medicine is achieved with FHIR
NHS Digital together with TPP and a system integrator have developed an interoperability infrastructure based on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) to exchange first aid reports, discharge letters and outpatient reports with general practitioners.
Interoperability by-design in application design
I note with great amazement that, with few exceptions, we continue to design healthcare applications as “islands in their own right”, but then worry, once the development is over, how to integrate them with other systems.
Health information systems are CIO’s Penelope canvas
Every 5-9 years health organisations replace their information system, beginning from zero every time. Continue reading
FHIR release 5 roadmap
It is available the roadmap of the HL7 FHIR new version. Let’s see what the main novelties are. Continue reading
FHIR release 4 is published
After 18 working months, HL7 released the version 4 of FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), object of a normative ballot and will be submitted to ANSI as a standard. Continue reading
What are Clinical Decision Support Systems and what are they for
As it happens for all new phenomena, a bit confusion and doubts can arise on their real usefulness and how the doctors will accept them. Continue reading
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