Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Smart hospital and AI innovations take centre stage at the HIMSS24 Asia-Pacific Health Conference on 1-4 October in Seoul, South Korea.

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.

At the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase, a sample use case demonstrated how Italians can share health records across its multiple regions thanks to the country's adoption of international data standards.

Also: Elevance Health and CDR announced a national primary care platform for risk-based healthcare delivery that takes a whole health approach to improve patient outcomes.

A prehospital health information exchange in Michigan that provides bidirectional interoperability will bridge ambulatory data gaps and enhance care coordination en route to the hospital and during post-discharge care transitions.

This comes as part of its 10-year strategy to improve health outcomes for people living with rare disorders.