A report titled “Cancer Services in Wales: A review of the strategic approach to improving the timeliness of diagnosis and treatment” has been published by the Auditor General for Wales, outlining that “despite increased investment, there is a continuing failure to meet the national performance targets for cancer”, highlighting risks […]
Tag: Interoperability
Interview: “We’re rearchitecting Australia’s entire digital health ecosystem” – Peter O’Halloran, chief digital officer at the Australian Digital Health Agency
For a recent interview, we caught up with Peter O’Halloran, Chief Digital Officer at the Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency), to learn more about current projects and priorities, what’s in the pipeline for digital and data across the next five years, progress toward Australia’s National Digital Health Strategy, and […]
Feature: Enovacom on interoperability and data sharing in digital mental health
HTN was joined for a recent interview by Joshua Camacho, business development manager for the UK & Ireland at Enovacom, a company dedicated to development software enabling the exchange and sharing of patient data for healthcare organisations. Joshua shared insight into Enovacom’s work around digital mental health, sharing case studies […]
HL7 shares guidance on standards-based AI and ML data lifecycle
Health Level Seven International (HL7) has published guidance on the artificial intelligence and machine learning data lifecycle, intended as an “informative document” to help developers in promoting the use of of standards to “improve the trust and quality of interoperable data used in AI models”. The paper provides a range […]
Ireland HSE’s Digital Health Roadmap in focus, with aim for digital budget between 4% – 6% of overall healthcare expenditure
Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) has published its Digital Health Roadmap, setting out a vision to create better health outcomes through a digitally enabled environment around six core principles: the patient as an empowered partner; workforce and workplace; digitally enabled and connected care; data-driven services; digital health ecosystem and innovation; […]
HTN Now panel discussion: how can health and care tackle interoperability?
A recent HTN Now panel discussion focused on the question of how health and care can tackle interoperability, with HTN joined by Kate Warriner (chief transformation and digital officer at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Trust); Chris Johnson (chief medical information officer at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust); and John […]
Health Information Bill 2024 “lays foundations” for establishment of Digital Health Record across Ireland
Ireland’s minister for health Stephen Donnelly has published the Health Information Bill 2024, designed to provide patients with increased access to their own information and providing a “clear legal basis” to establish a Digital Health Record across Ireland. Additionally, the bill sets out a “duty to share” health information for […]
NHS Humber Health Partnership launches Flow project designed to evaluate and streamline patient journey
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, together forming the NHS Humber Health Partnership, have launched a transformation project called ‘Flow’ aiming to reduce unnecessary hospital stays and admissions by streamlining “every stage” of the patient journey. The project will see each stage […]
Digital Health and Care Wales’ organisational strategy 2024-2030: in focus
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) recently published its organisational strategy for 2024-2030, framed around five key missions: to provide a platform for enabling digital transformation, to deliver high quality digital products and services, to expand the digital health and care record and the use of digital to improve healthcare, […]
HL7 International and openEHR International consider aligning standards and specifications
International technical standards bodies HL7 International and openEHR International have announced their intention to explore a closer collaboration, and are jointly considering aligning some standards and specifications. In a joint statement by Rachel Dunscombe, CEO openEHR International and Charles Jaffe, CEO HL7 International, the pair outline how a collaboration could help “deliver […]
