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More exciting developments in the International Patient Summary (#IPS) space! Read this recent article to learn how the Department of Health of New Brunswick, a province on the east coast of Canada, in partnership with VeroSource, a HEALWELL AI Company, and Canada Health Infoway, has launched the first patient-mediated Patient Summary in North America. What does this mean for patients and the healthcare system? It promotes informed decision-making and modernizing interactions with the healthcare system, overall reducing the burden on health system resources, while also enabling citizens without a family doctor to access their personal health records efficiently, eliminating unnecessary appointments, phone calls, and more. You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/gsHA3-wU

Continued progress in US Healthcare #Interoperability! The latest ONC analysis reveals significant adoption of patient health information exchange among US hospitals, spanning from 2018 to 2023. Notably, the analysis underscores the pivotal role of hospital resources in achieving interoperable exchange, highlighting its complexity. This finding isn’t surprising given the well-known challenges in the #healthcare #informatics space

Meanwhile in Canada . When will we achieve this in Australia? We can’t even do this moving between two different primary care practices or moving between different parts of our health system. #internationalpatientsummary The secure Patient Summary functionalities, found in the province’s health information app, MyHealthNB, enables New Brunswick residents to cross both provincial and international borders equipped with a shareable, digital set of basic clinical data. This summarized version of a patient’s clinical data provides health professionals with the essential information needed at point of care, such as during medical emergencies, walk-in clinic visits, and transitions of care.

The scope for a shared care record is as simple or as ambitious as you want to make it. At the very least we could apply this here in Aotearoa to integrate primary / secondary care views of patient information. Last week at the TUANZ conference in the DHA workstream I heard yet again how frustrated primary care providers (GPs in this instance) are with not being able to view their patients secondary care record. It's as easy as onboarding a user can be (roles exist already for this use-case) leaving the complexity of active use (doing, not just viewing) to evolve as models of care are developed to support the shift-left strategy over time.

70% of hospitals participate in healthcare interoperability, enhancing patient care with better data exchange. However, gaps remain, especially with long-term care and behavioral health providers. Spectralink’s clinical mobility solutions can help bridge these gaps by streamlining communication and ensuring critical patient information is accessible when needed. #Healthcare #Interoperability #ClinicalMobility https://lnkd.in/eRSzWkzS

In our experience working with digital health innovators, we've seen the opportunity it creates for our public healthcare system to provide more accessible, equitable, and timely care. Done right it means more time and opportunity to focus on patients and in fact, be more human. We gathered some thoughts on it in our latest article.

At Pilot we have worked with quite a few health innovators. One thing we've learned is that digital healthcare innovation can be a great thing for our public healthcare system when the focus is on improving patient experience. Instead of impersonal or corner cutting, it can mean more time with patients, less burned out doctors and more efficient referrals and diagnosis.

The nhs has spent years building reliable and scalable API into national infrastructure. Working with Answer Digital has been one small step in leveraging our national capabilities to make impactful local changes. We making this openly available for others in the nhs to gain the benifit. #TRFTProud2bDigital

Dr Henrietta Hughes, England's patient safety commissioner, will keynote at Digital Health Rewired 2025, focusing on digitally enabled community care and patient safety.Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, England's patient safety commissioner, is set to deliver a keynote at Digital Health Rewired 2025, emphasizing the role of digital tools in enhancing community care and patient safety.Keynote #communitycare #DigitalHealth #healthcare #NHS #patientsafety

HCPs and patients as partners impacts satisfaction, adherance and outcomes. I experienced the benefits of shared decision making (SDM) first hand as a Mental Health Clinician in the 90s, as a Life Coach in the 2000s and as a Researcher over the decades. Informative, relevant, patient centric resources are extremely useful to foster meaningful dialogue and streamline decision making for both HCPs and patients. Please read this article to learn more.