What Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) look like, how they work, what constraints they have and what contribution they can make to improving doctors’ decision-making: all you need to know.
Interoperability
Germany joins SNOMED and allows free use in the Country
The German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) has announced that it has joined SNOMED International for the national use of SNOMED CT from the beginning of January 2021.
Telemedicine, in order to evolve, must be integrated into the National Health Service
The keyword of any project must be interoperability: technological, organisational and clinical.
CRM in the fight against Covid-19
Some healthcare organisations are using CRM systems to manage Covid-19 patients and suspicious cases.
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.
Tele-medicine, before tele- is medicine, with all that comes with it.
The systematic adoption of telemedicine cannot ignore a number of aspects that must be considered and planned. Telemedicine is not just a technology.
Lesson learned from the Coronavirus: the limits of disintegrated cares
The current limitations of digital healthcare are complicating the Coronavirus emergency. In this new series of articles, we will try to highlight the most important ones. Continue reading
HIMSS releases a new definition and white paper on digital health

Last week HIMSS published a new definition of digital health and an interesting white paper that treats different aspects of this world. Continue reading
Is connected care a technological mirage?
Connected care is a very popular paradigm among technology and information technology providers. But what do professionals and healthcare organizations think about it? Continue reading